I expressed a wish to have some and a kind person on here sent me a box
full.
It has settled very well in several sites and is now flowering. I ate a
bulb of it before I planted it and it nearly blew my head off.
I don't intend to let it get too invasive, I will eat it to death.
I love garlic and use it in cooking all the time.
These were seriously strong.

I can also eat the leaves and flowers but will wait a while so it settles to
spread a bit.
These are my stock plants for now.
Isn't it wonderful that I wish for Ramsons and someone sends me some?
Tina

My favourite is to lightly shred lots of young wild garlic leaves, add
salt, lemon juice, lemon zest, lots of coarsely ground black pepper
and a few nobs of butter. The mix is then used as a stuffing for
chicken or boned, rolled shoulder of lamb. The very young, recently
emerged flower spikes ( a fiddly job to pick, but worth the effort)
are wonderful if steamed and tossed in butter or drizzled with a light
hollandaise sauce, while the opened flowers can be added to salad for
a gentle garlicky infusion. The only thing I don't eat is the bulb -
I find that it leaves a slightly odd after-taste.

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My favourite is to lightly shred lots of young wild garlic leaves, add
salt, lemon juice, lemon zest, lots of coarsely ground black pepper
and a few nobs of butter. The mix is then used as a stuffing for
chicken or boned, rolled shoulder of lamb.

Thanks for that. I've had them in soup made with ramson leaves, young
nettles and potatoes;
cook in a well seasoned stock, liquidise and add cream.


New potato and wild garlic omlette:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...a-1957094.html

Tim w

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
I expressed a wish to have some and a kind person on here sent me a box
full.
It has settled very well in several sites and is now flowering. I ate a
bulb of it before I planted it and it nearly blew my head off.
I don't intend to let it get too invasive, I will eat it to death.
I love garlic and use it in cooking all the time.
These were seriously strong.

I can also eat the leaves and flowers but will wait a while so it settles
to spread a bit.
These are my stock plants for now.
Isn't it wonderful that I wish for Ramsons and someone sends me some?
Tina


"Eat leeks in Lide and Ramsons in May
And all the year after physicians may play."

R.