Food

[skywatch]

Slow smoked beef ribs & homegrown tomato BBQ sauce. Not pretty, but when pulled off the bone and served in a sandwich... mmmm.

[Henry Krinkle]

Not that I disagree, but open up a book on identifying wild mushrooms for my area sometime and tell me you wouldn't be overly cautious. I've been identifying wild edible flora almost my entire life and I still find mushrooms to be more risk than reward. We have some bad ones that mimic the fine ones, that alone makes digging up nasty fiddleheads much more appealing than dealing with an acre of mushrooms to choose from.

Mmmm...fiddleheads. I grow my own.

[CanadianStraps]

Mmmm...fiddleheads. I grow my own.

I gues I kinda do as well... 52 acres of variable forest, and by now I know of several fiddlehead hotspots. I had a friend and his wife come up for a long weekend a few years ago, she goes on a morning hike and comes back with 7 fiddleheads. You'd think she had won the lottery. I took her for a 3-minute jaunt to an area I know, and she came back with a bucketful of them, her and her hubby literally gorged themselves on them.

I've cooked them every conceivable way, but they just aren't for me. I've heard the flavour referred to as asparagus-y, spinach-y, broccoli-y, and so on. I love all of those things, fiddleheads give me none of that. Not a fan.

[Henry Krinkle]

I gues I kinda do as well... 52 acres of variable forest, and by now I know of several fiddlehead hotspots. I had a friend and his wife come up for a long weekend a few years ago, she goes on a morning hike and comes back with 7 fiddleheads. You'd think she had won the lottery. I took her for a 3-minute jaunt to an area I know, and she came back with a bucketful of them, her and her hubby literally gorged themselves on them.

I've cooked them every conceivable way, but they just aren't for me. I've heard the flavour referred to as asparagus-y, spinach-y, broccoli-y, and so on. I love all of those things, fiddleheads give me none of that. Not a fan.

I have ferns all over my yard for cosmetic purposes but in the front I have a bed of nothing but ferns and I can easily harvest a couple of pounds of them.

I find them to taste somewhat like you describe but to me they also share a characteristic I find with callaloo and that is you can almost taste that they are mildly toxic. That element may be what you find unappealing about them. I do not like too much of them, or callaloo for that matter, but I do like them. My favourite way is to make barley risotto style with beef stock and a lot of a decent red wine. I like the earthiness of Spain for this dish. When the dish is nearly done throw the blanched fiddleheads in.

[Der Amf]

Is this the wrong thread for this comparison of May with September?

[geoffbot]

Depends if you're weighing chicken to cook in which case yes, or yourself in which case no - see the fitness thread. .

[meijlinder]

Is this the wrong thread for this comparison of May with September?

Fitness thread perhaps? Or it was all due to new diet?

First I read it as stone.. Did not compute with your wristshots.

Good job nonetheless.

[Der Amf]

Depends if you're weighing chicken to cook in which case yes, or yourself in which case no - see the fitness thread. .

Isn't the fitness thread for people who exercise? I just cut out cheese and cake and changed breakfast cereal

[skywatch]

Is this the wrong thread for this comparison of May with September?

BMI I presume? That's excellent - congratulations! I have been struggling with the opposite direction, especially after gaining 4 kilos while on tour this spring. Weeks worth of driving and increase in beer consumption I assume. I'm at the age where it seems to ratchet upward with every slip. I'm in that right yellow zone now. Sigh.

[skywatch]

Isn't the fitness thread for people who exercise? I just cut out cheese and cake and changed breakfast cereal

Now I am officially envious.