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- cross-posted to:
- greenspace@beehaw.org
- farming@slrpnk.net
- foodporn@lemmy.world
I have Ostrich fern on the front of my house that I have been waiting years to try. I keep missing the window when they are ready so I was overjoyed when I saw my fiddlehead popping up. I chopped 9, steamed with in a pan with a little butter for 5 minutes. I plated them with just a sprinkle of flaky salt and had them for lunch today.
They were great and tasted a little like asparagus but with a more savory, earthly flavor. They were amazing and totally worth the wait. I might check tomorrow to see if I can sustainability grab a few more to have them again.
10/10 would forage again.
When I was teenager, we were very poor and each Spring one of my uncle was picking us to went to a spot where there was abundance of fiddleheads we were foraging to make reserve year long. My mother was freezing them. I ate so much of these I can no longer eat them anymore now they are a fancy side meal. The association to our poor condition is too strong. But they kept us healthy and alive at zero cost.
They are only able to be foraged a few days / a week a year. That must have been a lot of fiddleheads
Yes, we went there with my uncle, my two sisters and my mother. It was a piece of land bordered by two brooks. It was easy to fill many bags within an hour or two.