She said it was an accident and she didn’t know, but today she told me I could just eat the fiddleheads from the yard raw in a salad!

I figured while I ate it, I though I should do a bit of research, since I planned to blog about it and don’t want to tell any lies of right a shit post!

Anyways the first thing I stumbled upon during my research was;

Do not eat raw! Cook prior to eating

Hot damn, she’s trying to kill me!

I think I’ll be okay though, looks like this advice came out in the 90s after there was a outbreak of food poisoning in the US after eating some fiddleheads. So they adviced to cook them. Looks like they still haven’t excluded a potential toxin either, but I’m sure the couple from my yard were ok! I still feel fine and it’s been like 4 hrs, but if I don’t wake up, at least it’s on the block.

Anyways that’s not the full post, I did want to talk a bit about foraging and the fiddleheads.

This is one of the first and really only things I’ve foraged from the yard/bush. Of course there are all kinds of berries, but I don’t really count them.

I pick them every spring for my wife, who has always cooked them and fried them in butter when consuming them herself!

I’ve always had an interest in foraging and living off the land a bit more, we do lots of gardening, hunting and raised chickens in the past and I really thing foraging more is a great addition. Although I did learn a valuable lesson today and doing your research and just not eating anything from the yard.

Well back to the fiddleheads, they are just the early growth from certainty types of ferns, that can be picked and eaten. It sounds like they have a pretty wide range so maybe you can find some around you.

Anyways I’m not going to give any more advice about them, since I’m obviously unqualified to give it... lol. But I’ll like to this great website with lots of great info.

I’m pretty sure it was really an honest mistake, I’m sure there are better ways for her to try and kill me if she really wants to!

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