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Dutchlady1
Naples, FL
(Zone 10a)
April 16, 2008
06:39 AM Post #4816129
| I love reading about things I never knew existed! |
catmad
Pelzer, SC
(Zone 7b)
April 16, 2008
08:33 AM Post #4816411
| I keep looking for them in my rambles, but no luck. I suspect I'm too far from the mountains, but I keep hoping...
Thanks Darius, I will be checking out the calendar. Hope it has pictures, I have sooo many things that "look" edible, but I'm just not sure...
Okay, no pictures, but still neat. I'm confused, tho. The calendar lists Ramps and Wild Leeks seperately, but the order form lists Ramps/Wild Leeks, as if they are the same thing. Anyone know?
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darius
So.Appalachian Mtns, VA
(Zone 5b)
April 16, 2008
10:09 AM Post #4816734
| Cat... I got the idea there is a very slight difference between our Appalachian Mountain ramps and the wild leeks grown around the Great Lakes. But why the differences between the calendar and the order box is a puzzlement. |
melody
Benton, KY
(Zone 7a)
 April 16, 2008
10:45 AM Post #4816871
| I guess I'm too much Mississippi river Delta over here in west KY. I've looked for ramps everytime I head into the woods.
I'd love to find a patch!
Thanks for the great article! |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
April 16, 2008
12:15 PM Post #4817312
| It is a great article, Darius, as are all of yours. Makes me homesick for the mountains, though. Thank you. |
darius
So.Appalachian Mtns, VA
(Zone 5b)
April 16, 2008
04:34 PM Post #4818254
| Thanks, y'all! |
mellielong
Lutz, FL
(Zone 9b)
April 16, 2008
08:38 PM Post #4819104
| I read the part about how to serve them up to my Dad, who is from Lincoln County, WV, and asked if that's how he had eaten them and he replied, "Absolutely!" I love reading your articles about this part of the U.S. It brings out a lot of good family stories here in my house. Thanks!
Melanie |
roadrunner
Hereford, AZ
(Zone 8a)
April 16, 2008
09:33 PM Post #4819540
| I well remember the one and only time I was treated to a Ramp Dinner.
My neice and her DH over in Alderson, WV came by some of the ramps...She decided they WERE NOT going to be cooked in her main kitchen...so off we went ...out of town to their farm house...we boiled up a bunch of the tops...then chopped them up and fried them with potatoes...YUMMY. But our husbands decided to eat some of the bulbs whole...needless to say...they slept alone for a couple of nigjhts...at the FARM HOUSE...LOL Jo |
mellielong
Lutz, FL
(Zone 9b)
April 16, 2008
10:00 PM Post #4819743
| Jo, in one of my genealogy books I remember reading a story about kids eating lots of ramps to get out of going to school for a few days! I had to ask Dad if it was really that bad and he let me know in no uncertain terms that it was.
Melanie |
roadrunner
Hereford, AZ
(Zone 8a)
April 16, 2008
10:28 PM Post #4819924
| Melanie...My older brothers didn't have Ramps to get them out of school...but they would eat garlic to do the same trick!! LOL Jo |
darius
So.Appalachian Mtns, VA
(Zone 5b)
April 16, 2008
11:01 PM Post #4820087
| Jo, I figured this article would get your attention, LOL. Glad you and Melanie got back to some good memories because of it. :) |
roadrunner
Hereford, AZ
(Zone 8a)
April 17, 2008
01:11 AM Post #4820700
| Thanks, Darius...Jo |
georgiascv
Canyon Country, CA
(Zone 9a)
April 21, 2008
08:45 AM Post #4840199
| I Found reading this article about 'Ramps', takes me back. I have fond memories of taking early morning walks with my Dad thru' the woods around our home where I grew up in Erie Pa. We went to dig worms, for fishing of course. We would eat what we always called leeks along the way. I never knew they were Ramps. I plan to find some to grow in my own small garden here in so. Ca. and hopefully share them again with my Dad. Thanks for the article and time to reminisce. |
Horseshoe
Efland, NC
(Zone 7a)
April 21, 2008
11:07 AM Post #4840807
| Every year I hanker to head to the Ramp Festival in Cherokee! (I hear you can smell it for miles before you get there!) So far I've never made it yet but I still have hope!
The way I figger it, after two days of eating ramps I'd be a prime candidate for camping in the mtns for a week! No doubt the aroma exuding off me would keep the ticks off as well as keep the black bears at bay (unless the bears liked ramps, too!).
Thanks for the write-up, Darius!
Shoe |
