Everything Ramp

The Blog Tech is always excited to attend the rampfest.

He looks forward to it all year.

He wasn't there 5 minutes and he scored some ramp dogs....hot dogs topped with fresh ramp relish.

He downed those babies in no time at all.  And then he ate another.

We bought pickled ramps.

And homemade ramp potato chips.

 Ramp butter which cost 6 dollars for 4 oz.!

I brought a cachapa home for my husband since he was puppy sitting and missed the fun.  Cachapas are corn cakes filled with Columbian cheese, pulled pork and sauteed ramps and are served with a ramp sauce.....delicious!

And of course I bought fresh ramps.  This is the test of a true ramp fan.  You have to love them a lot to clean them! I bought about 8 pounds.

 Slowly but surely I worked my way through bunch after bunch.  I cut the roots of, slid the jackets off and rinsed off the mud.  Ramps grow along creek beds and when I say they are muddy, I am not kidding. They come out of the ground covered in more mud than ramp.

 The work pays off when you end up with a pile of pristine ramps.

 Then you pull out 4 pounds of Amish butter and soften it.

And turn the above into fantastic ramp compound butter.

Freeze it in 4 ounce containers and use it in everything you can think of.  And it's a lot cheaper than paying the 6 bucks at the festival.