Baby leeks

Ramps are wild leeks and they are in season for a short while in spring. The beauty of the baby leek is that you can use the entire vegetable, not just the white part. It is very pungent, so to reduce the pungency, cook it, in this case, grill both the white and leafy parts and blend it into a pesto with garlic, roasted almonds, lemon juice, fresh spinach, parsley, marjarom, and extra-virgin olive oil. The lemony ramp pesto goes well with virtually all kinds of pasta, but in this case, it went extremely well with linguine, simply roasted asparagus and sweet 100 tomatoes, and black beluga lentils.