Garlic Scape Compound Butter

A flavorful compound butter packed with mild and herbal garlic scapes with parsley, lemon, juice, and salt—perfect for melting on meats and fish and more.

Ramp Pesto

A garlicky, savory pesto made from ramps, a foraged wild onion that chefs (and food writers) go wild for. This pesto tempers the garlicky bite of the ramps with pecorino cheese, pistachios, olive oil, and lemon juice and zest, and is perfect for pasta, beans, vegetables, on roasted chicken and fish, and on sandwiches.

Ramp Gravy

A creamy gravy flavored with ramps, perfect for biscuits or mashed potatoes.

Grilled Ramps

Grilling ramps enhances their sweetness and gives them a tender-crisp crunch. It's the ideal way to cook this great wild spring vegetable.

Extra-Rampy Ramp Risotto

An ultra-ramp-flavored, bright green risotto flavored with blanched ramp greens and whites, topped with herb ricotta and sautéed ramps.

Quick Pickled Ramps with Coriander and Chili Flakes

Ramps, a wild leek that tastes like an earthy cross between green onions and garlic, make an excellent pickle. This particular combination of pickling spices was heavily influenced by the basic pickling brine recipe in The Wild Table, an excellent book on foraged foods by Connie Green and Sarah Scott.

April Bloomfield's Toasts with Ramp Butter and Fried Quail Eggs

These Toasts with Ramp Butter and Fried Quail Eggs from April Bloomfield's A Girl and Her Pig are yet another way to enjoy everyone's favorite fleeting spring vegetable. The butter in this recipe incorporates both the cooked bulb of the ramp and its tender, raw greens into a rich butter dressed up with capers, anchovies, lemon, and chiles.

Parmesan-Basil Butter

A compound butter flavored with Parmesan cheese, basil, garlic, and lemon. Use it on grilled meat, vegetables, or seafood.

Puffy Ramp Frittata

While at its simplest, a frittata is nothing more than beaten eggs with some mix-ins cooked in a skillet, I like to go the extra mile to make them puffy. Somewhere between a soufflé and a Spanish-style tortilla. Ramps and eggs are also natural partners, and there are few egg recipes simpler for a crowd than a frittata.

The Homemade Pantry's Butter

To make butter from the comfort of your home kitchen, all you need is a stand mixer, a pint of cream, and a pinch of salt. Over the course of just about 15 minutes, the cream whips, stiffens, then separates into butter and buttermilk.