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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
and cut up and split a cord of firewood.

Next weekend - in goes teh garden...

that is all
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:55 AM
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1. Where are you that you get fiddleheads?
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
no suh..

The cider was from my own apples though...
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
Goose Rocks Beach. There's a patch up there. What will you do with all those fiddleheads?
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 10:11 AM
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5. Cleaned, blanched and froze them in pint batches - some for Thanksgiving
some for beer-battered deep-fried fiddleheadds this spring and summer...

:)
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 10:14 AM
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6. We picked and pressed 9 boxes of "wild" apples last fall
then primed it when we bottled it - it's just like champagne when it gets its "fizz"...

yum

:)
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 10:25 AM
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7. Fiddleheads! I .am. so. envious.
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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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
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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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 10:57 AM
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9. what's a fiddlehead?
:wtf:
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 11:02 AM
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10. It's the circinate vernation (curled young shoots) of the Ostrich Fern
The first "wild green" of the spring in the Northeast...

cured my winter scurvy...
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 11:05 AM
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11. dang, the east coast sure is weird
:crazy:
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astral Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 01:22 AM
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17. They are on the West Coast too
And I think they are much better raw than cooked.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 11:08 AM
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12. pix for the clueless
a serving of fiddleheads


fiddlehead fern
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 11:18 AM
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13. that does look like dinner
on Fear Factor. :puke:
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 11:19 AM
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14. well
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.....


:scared:



lost
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 11:21 AM
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15. The larger specimens are carnivorous
:evilgrin:
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 03:15 PM
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16. That's how I feel about clams! But fiddleheads are sweet and
wonderful and very expensive if you try to buy them during the instant they are available in the supermarket.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
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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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
Edited on Wed May-07-08 04:02 AM by Tuesday Afternoon
of what they were.

green beans.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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.
Edited on Wed May-07-08 04:46 AM by gbrooks

Koodows for promoting a much neglected natchul'
vegetable.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 10:07 AM
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23. Kudos
and kicking for the fiddleheads :D
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 07:07 AM
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21. I'm jealous!
I have yet to pick any up.
I hope there are some this week at the farmers market.
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 08:15 AM
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22. That is A LOT of fiddleheads :)
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