This semi-hippie kid's cookbook I have (from my childhood) has a whole thing on fiddlehead ferns, but I still have never eaten them.
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2010 10:32:00 am PDT #23738 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
brenda m - Apr 18, 2010 10:32:06 am PDT #23739 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Those are pretty common in Canada but now that I think about it I don't know that I've ever seen them here.
flea - Apr 18, 2010 10:37:23 am PDT #23740 of 30001
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Huh, until just now I thought ramps and fiddlehead ferns were synonymous. Now I know (and knowing is half the battle.)
Sue - Apr 18, 2010 10:37:54 am PDT #23741 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Those are pretty common in Canada but now that I think about it I don't know that I've ever seen them here.
Just coming into season now, I think. They are a specialty of New Brunswick.
Bon, were they a little slimy?
Sue - Apr 18, 2010 10:38:24 am PDT #23742 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I've never heard of ramps before I read that article.
Amy - Apr 18, 2010 10:38:49 am PDT #23743 of 30001
Because books.
I feel like someone used fiddlehead ferns on Top Chef once, but I'm not sure.
My most adventurous fruit/veggie outing this weekend was a banana and some overripe grapes.
bon bon - Apr 18, 2010 10:42:20 am PDT #23744 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Bon, were they a little slimy?
IIRC they were grilled in a salad, so I don't think so.
quester - Apr 18, 2010 11:02:06 am PDT #23745 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
That's where Kansas City Rep's prop storage is. They have a pretty amazing collection of stuff there, all amazingly well organized and cataloged. The tunnels are all large enough for semi trucks to easily navigate.
I spent many hours down there, sorting and searching! We made up stories about the people who worked down there full time. We speculated that they would be the last to know if nuclear armageddon occurred! They would only know when the snack truck failed to come around.
It also gets very, very dark when the power fails! I was down there with another grad student when that happened. The flashlight that was supposed to be by the door didn't have a battery, so I felt my way to the hand props area and found the little pen lights I had used to make fairy wands for Midsummer Nights' Dream. I then had to walk all the way into the deepest part of the cave where the other grad student was stranded! On the way back out all these little yellow green "eyes" appeared in the darkness! It was the glow-tape stuck on the backs of all the prop furniture!
Also hilarious: I ate ramps last night.
Eons ago, when we lived in Oak Ridge, TN, my father wrote a Sci-Fi story about aliens who came there to get ramps to fuel their space ship! That's all I can think of when I hear about them.
Scrappy - Apr 18, 2010 11:19:50 am PDT #23746 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I felt my way to the hand props area and found the little pen lights I had used to make fairy wands for Midsummer Nights' Dream. I then had to walk all the way into the deepest part of the cave where the other grad student was stranded! On the way back out all these little yellow green "eyes" appeared in the darkness! It was the glow-tape stuck on the backs of all the prop furniture!
This image is giving me great happiness.
DavidS - Apr 18, 2010 11:25:29 am PDT #23747 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That is indeed a great anecdote about subterranean KC.