[recipe] 'Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' Salad PT

[Guest guest]

Very cool story and recipe PT. Now I want to try fiddleheads, can I find those

in LA anywhere? I'm really curious now. You and Guru have me on another of my

many missions.

Donna

 

~ PT ~ <patchouli_troll wrote:

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

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

i don't know if you can find them frozen or in the stores

down in LA. i haven't seen any here in Southern Oregon

so i never have tried the real thing yet. i want fresh, too! *lol*

The cookbook where i found the fiddlehead salad recipe

did say they were comparable to asparagus, but we'd have

to ask Guru how they really compare.

Well G? What's the word?

 

~ pt ~

 

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.Ê People

inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their

happiness or satisfaction.Ê Yet true happiness comes from

a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be

achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and

compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness,

and greed.

~ Dalai Lama

~~~*~~~*~~~>

, Donnalilacflower <

thelilacflower wrote:

>

> Very cool story and recipe PT. Now I want to try fiddleheads, can I find

those

in LA anywhere? I'm really curious now. You and Guru have me on another of

my many missions.

> Donna

[Guest guest]

PT,

 

I think your comparison of fiddleheads to asparagus is pretty good - maybe

even a cross between broccoli and asparagus. It is definitely one of my

favorite veggies. I blanch and freeze them. I put them in potato salads,

salads and on top of pizzas.

 

By the way, those cigarettes are vegetarian aren't they? Just kidding.

 

GB

 

[recipe] 'Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' Salad PT

 

i don't know if you can find them frozen or in the stores

down in LA. i haven't seen any here in Southern Oregon

so i never have tried the real thing yet. i want fresh, too! *lol*

The cookbook where i found the fiddlehead salad recipe

did say they were comparable to asparagus, but we'd have

to ask Guru how they really compare.

Well G? What's the word?

 

~ pt ~

 

 

 

 

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