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Posts from — April 2009

Early Spring – Ramps with Pasta Recipe

To anyone living in the New York area, it would be hard to escape the fact that Spring has arrived. Of course, the foliage knew something we didn’t, for even as snowflakes continued to fall, and an icy wind gripped the City deep into April, Nature was coming alive with the bounty of the Earth.

Chief among that bounty includes the arrival of early Spring vegetables, most notably sunchokes (also known as “Jerusalem Artichokes”) and ramps (also known as “Wild Leeks”). Jamie took a trip down to the Union Square Greenmarket, and came back with several bunches of ramps, and a nice bag of sunchokes. My quest was to find a delicious way to prepare them…
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April 27, 2009   1 Comment