fiddleheads. the one thing mark really wanted when we went to new brunswick last year. i never had a true appreciation for them because when i was growing up i had them all the time (they happened to be frozen and come from a bag but i still had them). i did not know that my mom searched the supermarket aisles for those little guys. AND as time passed on they became extinct in the frozen food aisle.
a few years ago mark and i were at the downtown market and we happened to come across a person selling them. mark was so excited and wanted to buy them for my parents. i called to see if they would enjoy them but with no answer i decided against it. we continued on our market journey sans fiddleheads. cut to my mother perplexed as to why i decided never to pick them up.
as the years passed i scoured the market for those precious little ferns to find that they had vanished. i asked a fish vendor about them (they got many things shipped from the east). she told me that she was unable to sell them at the market. apparently, the officials did not know what to do with them. they thought it was some kind of weed and the look was too strange. he he, can you imagine!?
however at work, i got the same reaction. as we prepped for canada day, i joked that we should serve fiddleheads (our room is doing new brunswick). questionable expressions around the room. "what do they look like, taste like, is it a vegetable?"
this year on one of our market journeys we struck gold as we came across the little weeds once again. knowing now, what i did not know then we bought some for my parents...and for ourselves. i finally appreciate that little fern for all its glory! :)
2 comments:
How do you cook your fiddleheads?
personally my family and i are quite simplistic. just clean, boil, and serve. the internet, however shows some fancy things that one can do. good luck with your cooking!
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