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Sun May-04-08 09:53 AM
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This weekend, I bottled 12 gallons of hard cider. picked 8 quarts of fiddleheads |
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and cut up and split a cord of firewood.
Next weekend - in goes teh garden...
that is all
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Sun May-04-08 09:55 AM
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1. Where are you that you get fiddleheads? |
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Sun May-04-08 09:57 AM
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2. Maine - but I will never divulge the location of my *secret* fiddlehead patch |
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no suh..
The cider was from my own apples though...
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Sun May-04-08 10:02 AM
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3. I thought it would be Maine! I've spent a lot of time up at |
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Goose Rocks Beach. There's a patch up there. What will you do with all those fiddleheads?
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Sun May-04-08 10:11 AM
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5. Cleaned, blanched and froze them in pint batches - some for Thanksgiving |
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some for beer-battered deep-fried fiddleheadds this spring and summer...
:)
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Sun May-04-08 10:03 AM
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4. how many apples did you need to make the cider? |
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Sun May-04-08 10:14 AM
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6. We picked and pressed 9 boxes of "wild" apples last fall |
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then primed it when we bottled it - it's just like champagne when it gets its "fizz"...
yum
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Sun May-04-08 10:25 AM
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7. Fiddleheads! I .am. so. envious. |
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Edited on Sun May-04-08 10:26 AM by Gormy Cuss
Can't get them here except the Belle o' Maine canned ones by mail order. I hope you're planning to can some dilly beans in a few months too. ;-)
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Sun May-04-08 10:53 AM
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8. Belle of Maine has a freeze-dried fiddlehead soup that's *really* good (but really expensive |
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And, yes I'm going to do some hot dilly beans this summer.
At Christmas, we had Bartlett Vineyards pear wine, Nezinscot Farms cheese :thumbsup: and hot dilly beans over at my brother's house.
Sounds like a strange combo, but it was wicked good...
:hi:
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Sun May-04-08 10:57 AM
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Sun May-04-08 11:02 AM
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10. It's the circinate vernation (curled young shoots) of the Ostrich Fern |
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The first "wild green" of the spring in the Northeast...
cured my winter scurvy...
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Sun May-04-08 11:05 AM
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11. dang, the east coast sure is weird |
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Wed May-07-08 01:22 AM
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17. They are on the West Coast too |
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And I think they are much better raw than cooked.
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Sun May-04-08 11:08 AM
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a serving of fiddleheads fiddlehead fern
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Sun May-04-08 11:18 AM
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13. that does look like dinner |
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Sun May-04-08 11:19 AM
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if you say they are good then maybe they are
I can't get past the squid/octopus tentacle look myself..... not sure I could eat it.....
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Sun May-04-08 11:21 AM
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15. The larger specimens are carnivorous |
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Sun May-04-08 03:15 PM
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16. That's how I feel about clams! But fiddleheads are sweet and |
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wonderful and very expensive if you try to buy them during the instant they are available in the supermarket.
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Wed May-07-08 03:43 AM
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18. That's a bad photo or they're overcooked. Also look to old. FH'ds I've had |
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Edited on Wed May-07-08 03:43 AM by gbrooks
are West Coast small, tender, fast stir fried and steam finished. Dente and bright green.
If they's olive colored they's dead Ned.
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Wed May-07-08 03:58 AM
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19. I just grabbed the first google pic...to give the people an idea |
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Edited on Wed May-07-08 04:02 AM by Tuesday Afternoon
of what they were.
green beans.
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Wed May-07-08 04:15 AM
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20. Hey no worries. I love FH's but when the veg is grey it's a dead thing. |
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Edited on Wed May-07-08 04:46 AM by gbrooks
Koodows for promoting a much neglected natchul' vegetable.
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Wed May-07-08 10:07 AM
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and kicking for the fiddleheads :D
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Wed May-07-08 07:07 AM
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I have yet to pick any up. I hope there are some this week at the farmers market.
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Wed May-07-08 08:15 AM
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22. That is A LOT of fiddleheads :) |
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