anybody ever eat a fiddlehead?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead


if so, what do they taste like?

Answer 1

asparagus that's been cooked in the same pot with mushrooms?

Answer 2

Fiddleheads are very, very popular in northern New England and eastern Canada. The season runs about 3-4 weeks in the spring. The taste is kind of like a combination of what you would taste if you would chew a piece of straw and a dandelion stem simultaneously. Very good with melted butter (especially the "semi-salted" butter sold in Canada but not the US).

Answer 3

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm in Nova Scotia. The best fiddleheads come from the St. John river valley in neighbouring New Brunswick. McCains also have them as a frozen product. They are the uncoiled fern leaves harvested in spring . They are quite exceptional in flavour and a sort of delicacy. Fresh, you cut off the end of the stem and are best steamed 'al dente' and served with salt, pepper and butter. They have to be fresh. Hard to describe the flavour... somewhere between a broccoli and a brussel sprout????

Answer 4

A Fiddle head fern is in the Lilly Family. so are onions and asparagus. they are in harvest in the spring and they go great with morels, fava beans and butthole juice