I want to fall in love - with nettles

Thanks everyone for your replies. Sorry for my delay, it's been so crazy on the farm. Thankfully I've got another two weeks before the next batch of lambs are due.

I haven't made anything with nettles yet, but they are on their fourth leaf now so I had best get on with it. Tomorrow I hope to try pesto... never made or ate pesto before, but sounds like it might be tasty.

I love nettles! I make a spring soup with dandelions and nettles that is really delicious: https://food52.com/recipes/11804-weed-soup

I think risotto is a great idea too. I would blanch the nettles before adding them to the cooked rice.

Kukla has a recipe for a pesto made with nettles that looks wonderful: https://food52.com/recipes/14232-pesto-d-urtica-nettle-pesto

Here's an article from the site: https://food52.com/blog/9935-stinging-nettles-and-the-best-ways-to-eat-them Also, lots of recipes if you do a search.

Last spring, I made a delicious fresh pasta with blanched pureed nettles in the dough, made similarly to how you'd make a spinach pasta. It was great topped with sautéed mushrooms.
Nettles are also wonderful as a pizza topping (again, blanched first to inactivate the sting), particularly with egg. I imagine an omelette or a frittata with nettle in it would be really good too.
Do try your greens creamed, as ktr and Maedle suggested! I like mine pretty lightly creamed with some whole milk greek yogurt -- just sauté the greens with a little garlic, season with salt, and stir in the yogurt to your desired creaminess at the end. This is very good plain, but you can add in any spices you like while sautéing. Nutmeg is traditional with spinach, and I like mustard greens Punjabi-style with some chiles, cumin, coriander and garam masala.

Cream of nettle soup is popular in Germany--and very good.

You can cook them like any green, so that gives you an option for a bumper crop. I have also used them in a risotto, which is a lovely spring dish. And in Orvieto, north of Rome, I was served a lovely steak topped with a nettle sauce.

I just found this website which includes a recipe for nettle lasagna: http://www.richsoil.com/nettles.jsp

Soup sounds great to me. Or maybe (I haven't done this), add some nettles to some creamed kale.
I also have to say that whenever I hear about nettles, I am reminded of when I discovered they grew in the ditch at my grandparents house - my cousins thought it was hilarious that I got a huge itchy rash after running through them and my cousins were completely unaffected.