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| I can't remember what thread I was in when I mentioned fiddleheads a while back, so I decided to post a follow-up even though they were cooked on the stove. Here's they first very small batch, harvested from the yard by my daughter who loves them - bit of butter, squirt of lemon ... Next year (they're not here very long), I'll substitute these for nettles in Frances' nettle pie recipe and bake it in the oven. |
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| What are they? Looks like some kind of fern? |
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| Very interesting. How do they taste? Anything familiar to compare them to?
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| Local asparagus (not the stuff trucked in from Chile) and fiddleheads are most welcome as sure signs of spring around here. Fiddleheads - Wild Harvest Gourmet - Recipes. Delicious One caution, though: taken in excess fiddleheads do have certain. ahem, emetic properties and may cause gastric as well as social distress
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| Beano? James
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| More like Pepto-Bismol But seriously, moderate consumption is fine. It's just that when the first ones appear some of us get a little overly enthusiastic
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| Funny, I was looking through the Audubon Filed Guide to the Pacific NW today. It shows a fiddlehead being the new growth of a fern, the part that rolls out as it grows a new leaflet (for lack of a better term). Oyster mushroooms for me and now fiddleheads for you!? What a day. Are you eating ferns Sarah?
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| Frances & George, they are ferns - embryonic ones - and as for the taste Dave ... not really like anything else yet kind of like most greens, in a way. Alfredo, some of those recipes look pretty good - for next year though. Gotta catch 'em quick because once they start to unfurl it's too late. The photo below shows them just a few days later. As for gastric distress, either I've been lucky up to now or I just don't eat enough of them! |
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| Pffffffffft. Excuse my gas! Sounds very spinachy - is that a word? Did you tell us that you liked them Sarah? I've forgotten. Perhaps you just like the gaseous emmisions!
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