{"id":6107,"date":"2014-04-28T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2014-04-28T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T01:00:12","slug":"wild-ramps-and-ramp-pesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6107","title":{"rendered":"Wild ramps, and ramp pesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/A-ramps-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"652\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/A-ramps-1.jpg\" alt=\"A-ramps-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/A-ramps-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/A-ramps-1-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have heard of ramps for many years, but not until today did I finally taste them. Ramps are members of the onion-garlic-leek family, and they grow wild all over the Appalachians. A friend gave them to me on a recent trip to Asheville. Ramps appear in April, I believe, and then they fade.<\/p>\n<p>I made the tops of the ramps into pesto. Though the bulbs (which look like little onions) are as edible as the tops, I saved the bulbs to plant in the branch bottom where the May apples grow. There is a good chance that the ramps will naturalize here in the Stokes County foothills.<\/p>\n<p>The tops have a mild oniony taste, much like leeks, but more tender. They made a delicious pesto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/A-ramps-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"652\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/A-ramps-2.jpg\" alt=\"A-ramps-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/A-ramps-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/A-ramps-2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard of ramps for many years, but not until today did I finally taste them. Ramps are members of the onion-garlic-leek family, and they grow wild all over the Appalachians. A friend gave them to me on a recent trip to Asheville. Ramps appear in April, I believe, and then they fade. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wild ramps, and ramp pesto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6110,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions\/6110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}