Fiddleheads

Well, because the people that name vegetables apparently were lacking in inspiration when they discovered these immature ferns, they're called fiddleheads, due to their resemblance to a certain string instrument's top. ❋ Sarah (2009)

We had a moose ragout, with fresh bread baked locally, and fresh fiddleheads we'd foraged up that evening. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the end you'll have delicious, asparagussy tasting tender fiddleheads with the tiniest bit of charred goodness and no hint of anything that will make you sick! ❋ Sarah (2009)

Assemble the dish: Serve each soufflé alongside a portion of fiddleheads. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To assemble the dish: Serve each soufflé alongside a portion of fiddleheads. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At Seattle chef Matt Dillon's restaurants, almost everything ends up in a pickling jar: tomatoes, plums, beets, eggs, fiddleheads and then some. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Boil fiddleheads for 2 minutes, until tender but not mushy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Drain the fiddleheads, then add to the butter and cook on medium heat until heated through. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tim opened the kitchen door onto a morning like other mornings: Dew on the fiddleheads twinkling copper and aquamarine. ❋ Stephen O’Connor (2010)

This leads to a fun culinary game later of what to do with strawberries, fiddleheads, and a rainbow trout, for instance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As well as invite edible tokens of warmer days finally come into the kitchen — ramps, fiddleheads, spring onions, asparagus and sweet cherries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Following Nora down the embankment to the beach, she felt her attention drawn to tufts of wet grass that grew between the rocks, fascinated to find perfect spiderwebs sagging with tiny beads of dew, the curling fiddleheads of ferns, black-and-white-striped snails leaving shiny trails on the undersides of every prickly thistle leaf. ❋ ERIN HART (2010)

Everything from ramps and fiddleheads to baby purple avocados. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Prime viridian, a shimmer of lime above the wet-black trunk of the plum tree, the dark wet fur of the pines, the pale fiddleheads, all that grass. ❋ Kate Braestrup (2010)

Growing up mountain poor with eight brothers and sisters, Mr. Hooks could hunt and fish for dinner by age 11, and he learned from his father how to locate fiddleheads, watercress, and wild leeks with the accuracy of a GPS system. ❋ Molly O’Neill (2010)

I [thought] we were going to [have sex], but she only [gave] me fiddlehead. ❋ NEexpert (2009)

[Whip up] some fiddleheads with [butter] on them. ❋ Doctor Livingstone (2005)

Mike: Hey man, that CD is ILL. Who is it? [Suzy]: Who is it? It's {FiddleHead}! [Ronaldo]: Want to go to a mad dank show? [Miguel]: Who's playing? Ronaldo: {FiddleHead} Miguel: Oh, for damn sure. They play {Dank} music. ❋ Tokety_toke (2010)

I saw [that cunt] [tomato] fiddleheading down at the [dunkin donuts] earlier, that motherfucker wont shut up. ❋ Jackchop999 (2020)