On 8/17/2015 9:57 AM, Helpful person wrote:
> Has anyone cooked them? I bought some a while back and sauteed them in butter. They were OK but nothing special. Any opinions? (They are also ridiculously expensive.)
>
Many many years ago here on RFC there was a poster who fresh picked and
sent me some fiddleheads. That was quite the adventure as they'd been
packed in dry ice and marked as perishable, but I wasn't home from work
yet when the USPS tried to deliver them. There was a notice on my door
telling me they'd tried to deliver something perishable.

I raced to the post office (meaning, drove really fast) and got there
before they closed. I'm looking for a package. I was told it was
probably still on the mail carriers truck, being brought back here.

Actually, while I was at the post office the driver went back to my
apartment and tried to deliver the styrofoam cooler again. It was a
comedy of errors.

I did finally get the fiddleheads and they were still pretty much cold
although by then the dry ice had dissipated. I cleaned, washed and
cooked them pretty much like asparagus. As Dave Smith mentioned, they
pretty much tasted like asparagus.

But thank you again, Kendall F. Stratton, former RFC poster, for picking
and sending me fresh fiddleheads. It's about the only way I'll ever
get to taste them again. Some people mention finding them in the
freezer section at the grocery store. I've looked but have never seen
frozen fiddleheads. Most people in the Southern US aren't familiar with
them.

Jill