Spring orgy

Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
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Today at Pike Place Market I found fresh ramps, gorgeous morels, and fresh fava beans. A total trifecta of spring heaven.

Dinner was roasted chicken with just S&P, EVOO and fresh thyme. Deglazed with some chicken stock from the other day that was aromatic with a hint of star anise. Sauteed the morels down in the deglazed pan for a loose but wonderful bit of chicken and morel gravy, almost creamy with the morel goodness as the mushrooms release their own magic. Meanwhile I chopped and sauteed all of the ramp bulbs, the oil turning bright green as they sweated down, then tossed in some farro that I had boiled for 45 minutes. A nice dose of fleur de sel and EVOO and then stirred in the fresh fava beans that I had shucked, parboiled and shelled (always an insane amount of work and compost and always worth with). Finally I sauteed the ramp greens separately and finished with a little salt ant EVOO.

Washed it down with a 1990 Beaucastel. The chicken was the perfect foil to the magic of the morels, ramps and favas. The ramps were the star since it is such a uniquely pungent item, but every bite was heaven. Probably the best dinner I will have all spring, all carried on the back o just perfect ingredients.

I should have taken some pictures. Sorry.

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Atta girl.

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That sounds absolutely delightful, Eric! I can’t wait for the farmers markets here to start carrying some local freshness. Ramps are just starting to appear here.

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Yeah bitch.

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Living dangerously, I see. Fava beans can be trouble for our ilk.

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Forget the food, I want to hear about the 90 beaucastel! [cheers.gif]

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Todd was being sarcastic…he doesn’t really think you’re a girl. neener

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Erica? [scratch.gif]

Hey sweetie, how much were the Morels?

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Sounds great. I have a giant bag of ramps putting them in everything and actually stuffed a chicken with them last night.

They don’t work so well on cereal though… [snort.gif]

No Morels here yet. Probably another 3-4 weeks is my guess.

George

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I had never heard off Favism before. Wowza.

http://m.eb.com/redirect?type=topic&id=202897

My wife and I have been eating them for years with no issues that I am aware of.

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Yeah, but he had posted the same to my FB note on 1990 Beau just before this, so I replied the same way.

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Stupid money, $49/lb. Fortunately a few ounces went a long way in my application.

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Yea I saw them at Uwajimaya the other day for $64/lb…I couldn’t do it.

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Mine were at Sosio’s.

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Rock star stuff. Nice.

So again, how bout that C9P note?

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It’s not much of a note. I have posted dozens on this wine.

  • 1990 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape - France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape (4/12/2011)
    As always, so stellar. This was a more mature and lighter bottle but screaming with garrigue, ripe and roasted, just textbook CDP. It always brings a smile to my face.

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That sounds fantastic!

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Eric- [welldone.gif] After moving back to Denver from southeastern PA, I always get a bit wistful this time of year as I used to be able to pop out the back door and have an abundant supply of ramps and a short drive let to a much treasure morel hunting ground. SIGH. then again, I didn’t get 30+ days on the slopes in PA.

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er, replace the ‘t’ on let w/ ‘d’ and move said missing ‘d’ to treasure; mouth watering too much to pay attention to spellinig.

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since you’re no longer there/here, how 'bout sharing your map? [snort.gif]