Asparagus, Strawberries and Fava Beans! Oh My!

With farmers’ markets all over the country re-opening for spring’s bounty, Endless Simmer put together a guide on what you should be cooking for the next few months. Don’t get tomato envy yet – we have plenty of ideas for the year’s first round of vegetables.

Below are some highlights from our archives, which we’ll sure to be updating as we try out new far mar finds, including <wait for it> peppercress. (I hope I’m not the only one addicted to How I Met Your Mother.)

Endless Simmer’s Spring Recipe Guide

Asparagus and Cannellini Bean Salad
Pasta salad is so 1973. Beans are where it’s at for a party dish.

Edamame Radish Spring Salad
Bright pink radishes, bright green edamame, bright bright flavor.

Pickled Ramp Vinegar
Ramps do live up to the hype.

Roasted Poblano and Garlic Scape Dip
Zesty. Smoky. Creamy. Just Right.

Sesame Enhanced Fava Bean Puree
Take the trouble to peel, boil and peel again those darn little fava beans.

(And if you wanna take a look at all of Endless Simmer’s cooking experiments – try our Recipe Index.)

 

Perfectly Seasoned: Pickled Ramp Vinegar

It. Is. On. It broke 80 degrees in Washington, D.C. yesterday, signaling the return of humidity and a new crop of vegetables. We have a few more weeks before it’s time for tomatoes, but in the meantime, I welcome our spring children: fiddlehead ferns, ramps, asparagus, spring garlic and strawberries.

First up Jackson 20‘s Chef Dennis Marron will teach us how to keep that ramp flavor going after its short season yields to summer produce. I use his tangy ramp vinegar to better Feta and Arugula Spring Rolls, Parsnip, Sweet Potato and Cabbage Couscous Salad, Tiger Eye Beans with Chipotle Cabbage and Dal Palak Dip.

Let us know what you spruce up with ramp vinegar.

Pickled Ramp Vinegar
from Chef Dennis Marron of Jackson 20

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