[recipe] 'Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' Salad

[Guest guest]

Back when I was reading'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' book

to my children, I stumbled across a recipe for fiddlehead and

shrimp salad. In this riveting tale of a lost girl in the Maine woods

by master storyteller Stephen King, the main character, Trisha,

has to eat what she can scrounge from the wilds around her.

Her mother had taught her about edible fiddleheads, and for

a time this was all she had to eat during her struggle for survival.

 

I live in Oregon, and I wasn't able to find any fiddleheads.

Thankfully the recipe did suggest you could substitute asparagus

for them, and I omitted the shrimp replacing it with some sliced

waterchestnuts. I served this, to my children's delight, one evening

as I read to them from the book.

 

If you live in Maine, do try this salad with fiddleheads when they are

in season. You also might want to read this story I renamed the salad

after. [This is like Reading Rainbow! *lol*]

 

'Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' Salad

 

3 cups sliced fresh asparagus (or fiddleheads)

1 cup cooked shell macaroni

1/2 cup diced unpeeled apple

1/4 cup chopped celery

1/2 cup sliced waterchestnuts

1/4 cup mayonaise

1 tsp grated lemon peel

 

Cook ferns or asparagus in a small amount of water until

just tender. Drain. Toss with all the remaining ingredients.

Chill.

Yield: 4 servings

 

~ pt ~

 

Write down the advice of one who loves you,

though you like it not at the present.

~ English proverb