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Sauteed Fiddleheads

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Sauteed Fiddleheads - a quick and healthy vegetable side dish Sauteed fiddleheads are a very healthy dish as fiddleheads contain Vitamin A, Vitamin C, potassium, iron, antioxidants, omega-3 fatty acids but you must use care in preparing them. Important - Because of where they grow, in wet marsh areas frequented by animals such as beaver and muskrats, there is the … [Read more...]

In Search fo the Elusive Fiddlehead Fern

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The hunt for the elusive fiddlehead fern........ For the last couple of weeks, Bill and I have been in pursuit of the revered Northwoods delicacy, the Fiddlehead Fern.  Technically, it is called the ostrich fern.  But when it first pops up through the ground, the frond is tightly curled in on itself resembling the head of a fiddle, thus it is referred to as a … [Read more...]

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