It’s another vegetarian lunch brought to you by Sarah and Melissa!  Unfortunately I am posting this a bit late and you probably can’t get some of the ingredients anymore, sorry!  There’s always next year.  There are a lot of delicious components in this dish – Gruyere, brown butter, delicate ramps, and the very weird but very cool fiddlehead ferns.

These guys are kinda funky looking, huh?  They have a short season in Spring and taste a lot like asparagus.  You need to wash them well when you get them, and it can be a little tricky to tell what is dirt and what is their little gripper feet – so I recommend soaking them in a bowl of cold water then rinsing them off one at a time.  Time consuming, but worth it.

Another short season, Spring item – ramps.  Most commonly found in Appalachia, these little guys are a wild onion variety that have a pronounced garlic flavor.  And they are just so pretty, too! (more…)