The Allure of wild ramps
This is the third year I've gotten wild ramps from the farmers market. The pattern is always the same... I'm itching to get back to farmers market produce, find a really awesome looking ramp recipe online, buy a bunch of ramps. One year I tried grilled ramps, one year I made ramp butter, and this year it was ramp pesto. After buying them, I spend way too much time fussily cleaning and trimming up the muddy messy ramps. And finally I try the recipe, and have my hopes dashed once more. It never seems worth how messy and time consuming cleaning them is. Then my mind gently forgets how messy it was just in time for it to be next year's ramp season.