I bought fiddlehead ferns, wild watercress, morels! yay! I'm pretty taken with the ferns. They taste kind of like asparagus, but look way better and don't make your pee smell, which never bothers women - guys just sit down! - but will make fiddleheads more popular in my house.
Here they are being beautiful.
To prepare them you dust off any of the brown fuzzy "ferny" stuff called chafe. I also trimmed off the edges of their stems first like you would asparagus or broccoli. Then blanch them in boiling water for about a minute, poor them in the pasta strainer and run cold water on them to stop the cooking process.
Then you can do anything with them really. Even just eat them in a salad. Here's the two best ways we had them:
In a delicious pasta with morels. A slight (read: low cal) cream sauce flavored with marsala wine. YUM.
On top of a small premade organic mushroom pizza. A rare indulgence these days!
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