The Where Have You Been? (Stardance!) Cafe

This topic was created in the Writing ✍️ forum by schoenetanz on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 and has 182 replies.

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@schoenetanz
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sooo what were you doing with yer life before you found dxp...

the DXP OD

how does it feel to be an addict?

special used to spend entire days on here...-_- also until he changed jobs...

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sooo what were you doing with yer life before you found dxp...

Normal. I went outside. I can't stand the sunshine anymore.

how does it feel to be an addict?

My boyfriend gets mad at me. Oh well. Scorpios are so easy to butter up if mad. 😉

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@schoenetanz
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WAAAAAAHHA

OMG

did you know?

DID YOU KNOW that there is a show on tlc called "101 things removed from the Body" ?

*eagerly awaiting 11:00*

itsgonna be on real soon...oooh boy I'm getting giddy with excitement! this better be good

I LOVE

the tender love and care channel!

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@schoenetanz
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HEY EVERYBODY!

GUESS WHAT!

I LOVE FIDDLEHEAD FERNS

I COULD EAT THEM EVERYDAY

and I just wanted you all to know how great they are and that you should eat them too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Fiddleheads emerge in their miniature dervish dancers around the first week of May. In lowland forests from the Great Lakes to the Maritimes of Canada the Ostrich Fern emerges in profusion. Tiny gray-green spirals reaching into the first really warm days of Spring. Each of them wearing their own little fur overcoat to protect them when it was chillier weather. Snapped up and eaten by whoever has the sense and taste to do it.
By Summer the ferns will be up 4 feet tall, and thick even after our feast.

The clean lowlands of Nova Scotia and along the East Coast of the United States have been successfully managed for commercial harvest for more than 200 years. They are wild lands but for the harvest each Spring.

Fiddlehead Greens are the premium wild forage vegetable of Spring. No other vegetable matches the exquisite form and delicious flavor of fresh Fiddleheads.

Fiddlehead Recipes
Fiddlehead Souffl?
Fiddlehead and Ham Casserole
Morel and Fiddlehead Fern Ragout
Saut?ed Fiddleheads with Fresh Herbs
Fiddlehead Ferns with Escargot Butter
Fiddlehead Fern and Ramp Soup
Salad with Fiddlehead Ferns
Grilled Roots with Fiddleheads and Greek dressing
For More Fiddlehead and Wild Mushroom Recipes, visit our Earthy Delights Recipe Collection
Selection

In selecting fiddleheads look for a tight coil and only an inch or two of stem beyond the coil. There is a brown papery chaff that surrounds the fiddlehead on the plant. Much of this will have been removed prior to purchase, but some may remain.

The outside of the coil should have an intricate pattern of tiny leaves arranged along the sides of the spiral. Size of the coil should be 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter. Larger size is acceptable as long as they are tightly coiled.

Good fiddleheads should have a distinctly crisp texture, both raw and after brief cooking. When selecting Fiddleheads always be sure you are getting the true Eastern Fiddlehead. These are the new growing tips of the Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris).

There is an edible fern shoot sometimes offered from the Northwest early in the Spring but it should be rejected as they are inferior in taste and texture. Common bracken and other ferns also produce tightly coiled new growth in the Spring but none of these are suitable for eating.

Handling Fresh Fiddleheads

If more than 2 inches of stem remains attached beyond the coiled part of the fiddlehead snap or cut it off. If any of the paper chaff remains on the fiddlehead

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*whispers to Mr. Gemini*

Do you think those Fiddlehead ferns are the reason she is a bit...odd...

I wouldn't eat them. I don't want to turn out like her. *points*

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@schoenetanz
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not just ANY FOOD!

fiddleheads

that pretty much is it...

well, except for bananas...chocolate, all kinds of bread -_- and CORN CORN CORN gets my juices flowing...okay broccaflower too and maybe jarusalem artichokes-

DAMNIT

food IS sexy

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@schoenetanz
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WAAAAAAA

that is such a tease- you can only see a tantalizingly small portion of the food before it is chopped out of the composition- leaves the good parts to the imagination though...

OOOH *getting flush, fans self*

damn- just a lil farther to the left...

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@schoenetanz
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MY LOVER^^^^^!!! What did you do— did you give him treats to lure him out of the safe haven of my profile—

please don't let him run away from me again...

*biting fingernails furiously*

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