Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: jturner on March 11, 2012, 05:13:49 pm
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Dug the first batch of leeks today, they are just startin to come up here, still small but they are good, and its fun to get the kids outside.
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i really wish i could have a garden.
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Is leeks a southern plant??? ....don't hear of them here in N. Illinois.
I just ordered some horseradish roots for the garden. Gardens are fun...wish you could have one Dictionary!!
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I spent the weekend hauling poor quality soil/red clay out and put in 1 yard of compost. I still need to put in at least 2 more yards of compost and top it with "vegtable mix". I planted some seeds in cups and need at least that many again. I haven't done a garden in a couple years so wish me luck. By the way, I know its a little late but I did plant some leeks too, it will be my first time growing them.
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im in michigan, they grow wild. we dig em and sell em in the spring, they are just coming up couple more weeks til they are ready, most people i know call em ramps
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lots of em in northcentral penna.Several leek and ham dinners at some of the fire companies near Germania in potter county
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Love em. The base to most good homemade soups.
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I have always wanted to try ramps. They are in the "love 'em or hate 'em" category so it's pretty likely I would love 'em.
Ramps are one of the very first green things to come up out of the soil in many parts of Appalachia and were prized as a spring tonic. After a long winter of eating meats and starches, the body is in dire need of the vitamins in green leafy plants and ramps were a godsend. Make you feel strong, make you smell strong.
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they are pretty strong, I think it was in the foxfire books someone said " ramps arent for ladies or men that court them" I get tired of smellin them after digging them all spring.
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I make a killer French onion soup...I bet these would "ramp" things up a bit by adding them to the mix!
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I hate leeks, they always show up in my fishing boat and get my feet wet.
Leeks are OK, but asparagus is where it is at this time of year. I go for my morning run and watch the ditch banks for wild asparagus.
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Oh man, wild asper-grass! That's the reason God made butter! Or bacon drippings!
Mix a package of Ranch Dressing Mix with a pound of softened butter. Then panfry the aspergrass tips in that Ranch butter....Straight to the heart good!
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asparagus is the best, my kids favorite food. but its way too early for it here
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You have sick kids! ;D
My neices once had overcooked asparagus served to them and they still call it "snot sticks" to this day!!! >:D
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We got leeks - my wife uses them from time to time. She also like asparagus in any form - usually a quiche - hmmm... maybe next time I will use leek instead of onion!
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I love Leeks, and Asparagus. My favorite recipe for Lima beans, especially the Ford Hook, variety, is to use a couple of leeks, and a sweet onion, and diced smoked ham, or smoked sausage, in half and half, and a package of Knorr's Leek soup mix. I don't care for Knorr's habit of putting nasty chemicals in their mix though. But I had a Friend of mine in Madison, Fla. who hated Lima beans, but when I fixed a batch of them for him and his Brother, and parents, he couldn't get enough of them. His whole Family loved them, so much there wasn't any left over! I had made a big pot, thinking I would have a bowl or two the next morning. The leeks just add the right flavor to them. They are just so expensive. I also used some green onions in the mix also, along with some McCormicks original Chicken spice. Now called perfect pinch, original chicken. I made some for my Buddy in Montana, and he and the rest of crew working on my house loved them. But he said he was not going to take any of the extra I made for his wife, to her! I asked him why, and he said he couldn't stand to be around himself after eating them, and he darn sure wasn't going to give any to his wife! I am going to make some for her, when I get out there this year. >:D ;D ;D Dang, now I am hungry again. Still thinking about those Siberian Pelmeni, I read about last night.
Yep, like Leeks. Ramps? I thought those were Mushrooms. Well I am more edjumacated now. Why are they called ramps? ???
Wayne