Shii loves dandelions!

[Miss Lydia]

Fiddle head ferns are popular here.

 

[quackiemama]

Oooohh I have never has fiddlehead but it looks like something I would enjoy

 

[Jpat]

Fiddle head ferns are popular here.

They are an old time meal here, As in they ate it here since it was colonized in the 1800s. People go nuts for them and foragers get alot of money for them

Oooohh I have never has fiddlehead but it looks like something I would enjoy

They are awesome! boiled and buttered


i heard at some stages they bein to turn toxic and even that they are samonella carriers, Have either of you heard of that?

 

[quackiemama]

Nope not me but this is something I now need to find. Do you eat morel mushrooms. That is a big delicacy here. People come to this part of the mountain morel hunting along the Potomac. We just picked some on a hike a few weeks ago.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Yep even the grocery stores here sell dandilion greens, people loveem. What about fiddle heads

I know what they are but I've never had any. I imagine they're good!

 

[Jpat]

I know what they are but I've never had any. I imagine they're good!

its hard to explain. its like collards but no bitter (i know collards arent bitter when their cooked right)

Kind of like swiss chard.

their realy earthy and they arent farm grown they are foraged in the woods so its as real as it gets

 

[DuckyDonna]

its hard to explain. its like collards but no bitter (i know collards arent bitter when their cooked right)

Kind of like swiss chard.

their realy earthy and they arent farm grown they are foraged in the woods so its as real as it gets

Ya, I've seen them in the woods. Where they are is usually where poison ivy is too so I don't go in those places. I get it really bad.

 

[The Dapper Duck]

i heard at some stages they bein to turn toxic and even that they are samonella carriers, Have either of you heard of that?

The toxins become more concentrated with age, so the less tightly curled ones will have more toxins in them. You might notice a tingling sensation on your tongue when you eat those ones. Small amounts won't hurt you (because all stages have some) but you don't want to eat a bunch of unfurled stems. Since this thread got a little derailed anyway, check out this link for bracken ferns and this link for fiddle head fern preparation. You can even pickle fiddle heads!

 

[Jpat]

The toxins become more concentrated with age, so the less tightly curled ones will have more toxins in them. You might notice a tingling sensation on your tongue when you eat those ones. Small amounts won't hurt you (because all stages have some) but you don't want to eat a bunch of unfurled stems. Since this thread got a little derailed anyway, check out this link for bracken ferns and this link for fiddle head fern preparation. You can even pickle fiddle heads!

great info dapper! bet pickled is good, that wouldve.been very popular before fridges