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Just mowed the shop lawn for the second time this season and, out by the highway, ran over those wild onions.... Sunshine on my back, little yellow, blue, white and purple flowers everywhere...and the wonderful smell of wild onions.....mmmmmmmmm
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up in pa/w.va. we call them RAMPS.....and we ate em. bout 50 times stonger smellin then garlic, BUT BOY they was good, on a mud covered, open fire baked tater)))) http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ncnu02/v5-449.html
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Old paint, you're making me hungry. Thanks Mike, I'm tempted to move up to your neck of the woods. Jeff, I'm going to get me one of those fried onion flower thingies at the bluegrass festival.
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In Ontario, it's Maple Syrup time with the sap just beginning to flow. It happens when daytime temperatures go above freezing, but fall below the freezing mark at night. The sap run lasts up to 3 weeks, but can be shorter or longer, depending on Mother Nature's whims. My son has a sugar bush and produces Maple Syrup just east of Ottawa.
When the season ends, I'll sometimes go exploring in the bush to hunt for Morels ( mid April to early May ) For those unfamiliar, Wild Morels are a type of wild mushroom and have a unique appearance so they can't be mistaken for the poisonous types. They are a real delicasy and their growing season is short, so they're a real late springtime treat. The Morels are most often found in leaf mulch around the base of dead Ash or Elm trees, and they usually pop up a day or two after a thunderstorm has passed.If you've ever tasted a Wild Morel that's been fried in butter, there's nothing quite like it.
Looking forward to a day in the bush, hunting down the always elusive Wild Morel.
-------------------- Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail: kjmlhenry@rogers.com
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ahhhhh those are DEEEEE-LIC-OUS!!!!!!!! grownin up in western PA, and livin in the country(was 18 miles to nearest town)you learn about these things early. being italian, these(morels)to me was know by the name SPANGOLI. i think in italian it means sponge, which they sorta resemble. my dad was was an EXPERT at finding these and many other kind of "eatable" fungi that we would harvest year round. this was a spring ritual bout the same time as "trout fishing season" opened. we did that also. summertime we picked "field shrooms" those little white ones you by in the store. in the fall we found "stump mushrooms" and the massive ones we called "sheeps head"(in books they are called HEN OF THE WOODS). dad had a 1956 merc 4 door, and we got one a them one year, we had to break in half..........to get home, put half in the trunk and the other half in the back seat. mom canned for 3 days......getting it all put up in qt jars with some green and hot banana peppers and oil, wish i hada jar a them now. springtime in maine, i lived there 8 years,in arroostook county, ment MAPLE SYRUP, panckae breakfasts,right at the sugar camps where they cooked it, and nitetime we dipped SMELT, in the lakes. then came FIDDLEHEADs.......the lowly FERN, when they 1st come outa the ground, they look like the end of a fiddle, all curled up, in a light brown film. you remover the film, wash em up boil em and serve with butter...BETTER THAN LOBSTER!!!!!!
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Ha! I especially enjoyed the last paragraph that Joe wrote about Maine. Fried smelts fresh out of the brook.....mmmmmmm! Never did eat fiddleheads though. Tried lobster for the first time when I was 42 and I am a true Maineac!
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Ken...I have been cooking Cane Syrup, in Florida, for 30 years. It's similar to maple, but with no controls by the state. You do what you want...thickness-wise.
But down here, we do it in the fall, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's part of celebrating a good crop, and life in general.
The past few years, the ones that do it, also do it at a local state park. It's called Dudley Farm, and I believe it's Googleable..(is that a word?) It is an old farm from the 1860's, and it is a working farm maintained by park rangers in older-style clothes. It is also self-sufficient.
When we do the syrup on the big open house day, we all get dressed in the old 1800's manor.
It's a hoot, especially seeing half the crowd also dressed in the old fashions as well.
Of course, there is pickin' going on, as well as soap-making,quilting,rope-making,sewing,horse-shoeing,blacksmithing, you name it.
Plus the older ladies always cook a big lunch in the outdoor kitchen, on a wood stove, including homemade everything.
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Ah, I want to see a picture of the wild onins. I might have some and not even know it.
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Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted I bought them for you Graceless lady you know who I am You know I cant let you slide through my hand
WILD ONIONS couldn't drag me awaaayyyy
WILD, WILD ONIONS , couldnt drag me away
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When I was a young'un in NNY, we went to the swamp in early May to look for leeks. When you ate one people could smell your breath for several yards. Not a good idea if you had a date coming up soon. Gone but not forgotten, memories of the simple days.
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Ah yes, I remember my younger days in East Los Angeles. Kunquats and mangos, fresh from my neighbor trees, Avacados from the park, for fresh guacamole. And of course, oranges, lemons and grapefruits from anyone's yard in Pico Rivera.
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I'll put in my order, Mikey. Let me know when they're ready.
Joey, Thanks for the inspiration......
Wild Onions Wayne Webb 2009
Over the hill behind our shack I plowed up a wild onion patch Chopped onions everywhere Their odor filled the air And it made me think of you
Wild onions made me think of you…darlin’ Wild onions made me think of you Honeysuckle on the breeze Brings sweet memories...but Wild onions made me think of you
2 Stopped by the hogpen on the way Wonder how much that porker weighs Eatin' all that stuff He's almost fat enough And it made me think of you
3 Oh darlin', you don't understand You're the finest woman in the land Babe, you’re sweet and good lookin’ But your down home country cookin’ Makes wild onions make me think of you
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