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23 May 11 - 10:57 AM (#3159177) Subject: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: EBarnacle Got some Fiddleheads at our local supermarket yesterday. Sauteed them as soon as we got home. Delicious. |
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23 May 11 - 11:14 AM (#3159185) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: nickp Yum. Can't get them here though. |
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23 May 11 - 11:28 AM (#3159189) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: GUEST,number 6 Fiddlehead season !! I agree .... very delicious biLL |
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23 May 11 - 12:35 PM (#3159225) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: Mark Ross As Haywire Brack said, marketing his fiddleheads as a natural laxative, "With fronds like these who needs enemas?" Mark Ross |
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23 May 11 - 12:58 PM (#3159228) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: gnu How do youse clean em and cook em? In the last fiddlehead thread, Been said he used an air hose to clean them. He also gave a cooking method. I may tray them again using his cooking method as I didn't care for them the first time I had them. Never cleaned any and the videos at YT are much help. |
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23 May 11 - 01:03 PM (#3159234) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: maeve Try this, gnu. http://umaine.edu/publications/4198e/ |
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23 May 11 - 02:07 PM (#3159257) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: gnu maeve... watch that vid again... he says you need to get the fiddlehean fern and not an ostrich fern...???? Also, the round stemmed ones may be carcinogenic? But that's what are picked here??? |
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23 May 11 - 02:17 PM (#3159260) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: LilyFestre Mark...LOL! I love fiddleheads!!! Fresh ones....the slime in a jar...well...it's slime in a jar! Michelle |
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23 May 11 - 02:38 PM (#3159272) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: maeve gnu- It was the preparation tips and recipes I was thinking you'd like, but I did go ahead and listened to the video. Perhaps you misheard because of the 10,000 pound robin singing outside your place. Mr. Fuller carefully explains that the "fiddleheads" or "croziers" that are considered to be safe to eat are the Ostrich Ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris Matteucie fougère-à-l'autruche, Tête-de-violon)only, and that the deep "U" groove in the stem is an indicator for the right fern. The ten minute cooking time is for the purpose of removing toxins from Ostrich fern fiddleheads, similar to the several changes of water when cooking dandelion greens. Other types of ferns have traditionally been eaten; Bracken Fern being one. They are thought to be carcinogenic based on modern information, but who knows how many you'd have to eat to have a problem? I've heard of changing the cooking water several times for other species, but I'd rather not have the worry, so restrict myself to Ostrich ferns. |
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23 May 11 - 03:18 PM (#3159300) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: Rapparee Fiddleheads...I can only wish for some...cooked simply, with butter.... |
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23 May 11 - 04:38 PM (#3159342) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: number 6 fiddleheads .... steamed. Served up with boiled potatoes with olive oil, white pepper and a rack of lamb. biLL |
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23 May 11 - 04:42 PM (#3159347) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: bobad "several changes of water when cooking dandelion greens.' Never heard that. I steam them for a few minutes then drain and sautee in olive oil with chopped garlic and chili pepper. |
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23 May 11 - 04:46 PM (#3159348) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: EBarnacle The fiddleheads which started this thread have been sauteed in butter and sesame oil with a couple of cloves of garlic [finely chopped], a few brussels sprouts, Baby Bella mushrooms, a little [less than an ounce] soy sauce and just a tad of pepper and salt. After going on line and seeing a lot of contradictory cooking advice, we kept it simple and actively sauteed in a hot pan over medium heat for 8 minutes until everything was tender. Heavenly. |
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23 May 11 - 06:20 PM (#3159404) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: gnu maeve... I listened TWICE more... at about 2:40 he says "and NOT an ostrich fern". I am NOT making this shit up. *I* did not "mishear". Apparently your link is different from my link. |
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23 May 11 - 06:22 PM (#3159407) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: maeve Ok, gnu. |
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23 May 11 - 06:24 PM (#3159409) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: gnu OK? Cool. |
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23 May 11 - 08:52 PM (#3159460) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: Ed T Bracken? |
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23 May 11 - 08:56 PM (#3159461) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: Ed T fiddlehead-fern |
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24 May 11 - 03:48 PM (#3159910) Subject: RE: BS: It's Fiddlehead season! From: Jeri I bought some in the market. Will marinate some chicken and follow Beer's directions (boil, boil, saute with garlic) and eat them. The ones in my back yard are bracken, but there are ostrich ferns all along the edge of my road. |