It's just like leaves drifted right down from the from the trees and settled onto your tart! If dead leaves tasted like crisped chard and oyster mushrooms.
Leeks, spinach and arugula are always around, and when you puree them, fold them into little doughy pockets and float them in a light broth, you can fake it (spring) until you (it) make it (actually shows up).
One does not look away from baby artichokes at the market. If you do, for a minute, the season will be over. All too soon, it's time to wrestle with their bigger, hairier brothers.
You expect that this is a very satisfying meal, I hope, since how else could a "go-to" become one. You also gather that you should be drinking lots wine with this dinner, right? Good.
For this, my new favourite salad, you dry out already sun-dried olives and you opt for roasted chickpeas instead of nuts--because they're way nuttier. And then you plow your way through way more of it than you could imagine.