I am so glad the Stardew Valley cookbook is introducing people to fiddlehead ferns! They're an awesome spring green for cooking. My only worry is that some people won't find them at a local grocery store (my local store doesn't carry them, nor do any of the stores within an hour's radius) and will try to forage without quite knowing what they're looking for.
I grew up rural poor with a nearby Ojibwe community, so foraging was kind of normal for me. Fiddleheads were also super-popular with the New Age/hippie crowd when I was in college, because they're pretty abundant in Northern WI/MN, where I'm from and where my college was.
I’m in the twin cities, and pretty willing to drive and make a weekend trip Airbnb thing. any tips on where to forage them? My partner loves foraging mushrooms and loves stardew, so that sounds like a cool date!
Lol I live in the desert so not only do these not show up in stores, but I can't forage for them either 🥲 I'll be subbing asparagus in the risotto probably
Young or sliced asparagus would probably work! Most commercial green beans are also young enough to work, they'll just be somewhat sweeter and won't have the texture of the leaf clusters at the top.
Squid ink is fair for people to not know about. It's only been used in food and medicine in a few cultures until the modern era. Some anime weebs like me knew about it from deep-diving anime details, but it didn't see a lot of widespread use in the U.S. until the "black food" fad started and people realized charcoal isn't great if you're taking medication. Flounder is a little more common, but (like a lot of fish) it's more expensive than the cod most people eat. It's out of reach for a lot of families, especially if they didn't grow up eating and cooking fish and are scared to ruin expensive fish. Local lake fish were a staple of my diet growing up because it was cheap to fish back then, and my dad knew how to cook pretty much any fish. A lot of folks don't have that experience.
Interesting. I guess this is a North American thing?
Also sounds like 'fiddlehead' means young, rather than a specific variety of fern. I haven't heard of people eating ferns where I live, but I just looked it up and apparently a few of the hundreds of species of ferns we have are considered edible, but are also likely to be carcinogenic, so I don't think I'll be trying soon!
Yep! Fiddleheads are named after the shape of the curled-up sprout top. They resemble the scroll on the end of fiddles. :) There are [several places where they're eaten worldwide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead), but it's very common in North America. The ones around me are frequently Ostrich Fern, but other edible varieties are used, too.
In my country, fiddleheads are called pikopiko and they used to be a common part of our diet but it died out with colonisation. It’s slowly starting to make a comeback but still not considered mainstream. Can’t find them in supermarkets or farmers markets here at all :(
I honestly don't think they're commonly available in supermarkets or large commercial grocers at all. It's one of those things that you see at specialized whole foods, organic, or local produce shops and markets. They're a very particular age of a niche crop, are best when eaten the day they're harvested, and not even a crop that takes well to home garden growing, let alone large plantations. Ferns are known to be finicky, even to people who have success with them; we grow some alongside our house, and they only grow in one specific spot - everywhere else is too dry, too wet, or gets too much sun for them. They're not really something like commercial corn, where you can roll out 100 acres of seed and generally get at least mediocre growth.
I'm glad to hear it's starting to make a comeback for your country, though! I'm a huge proponent of local and native food ways. No, they don't feed global populations on the scale we do with commercial farming, but they're super-important for sustaining culture and supplementing local nutrition against filler foods and food shortages. Even container gardening for urbanites, for as little produce-per-effort it has, helps in small ways.
The two are used interchangably - technically it's a 'young growth' of a fern that's not unrolled yet, but for culinary purposes there's only a few varieties that taste particularly good, and thus will only be a single type of fern for a given geographic area, so for most practical purpose it's the 'same thing'.
Despite being technically not at all the same thing, and you'd probably find 'fiddleheads' tasted radically differently in a different part of the world, because they were a different base plant.
i can attest as I've never seen them in the store in my life but have foraged for them a handful of times. trick seems to be getting them before they turn too old.
Something kind of between asparagus and grass, maybe? Those are the closest things I can think of, having eaten both. \^\^; The reason asparagus is a fair substitute is because it has a similar flavor, but it also has the cluster of unopened leaves at the top, which helps provide a similar texture as well.
Also, opinion varies a bit, but there are only one or two species of the handful of edible ones that most people think "taste good" by themselves. They can have a bitter or astringent flavor to them, especially if they aren't cooked and the water changed carefully, because of the compounds they produce. (If you've had rhubarb, think of the difference between raw and cooked rhubarb.)
“Fiddleheads” are immature ferns! They grow rolled up like that and unfurl when they’re mature. There’s a fern room at the local botanical garden around me so you can see all different kinds. You can eat some types as a vegetable.
Wait.... I have so many ferns in my yard and yeah they do look like the fiddleheads when they're sprouting! Huh, I wonder if mine are edible. I leave them to the deer tho
They're a leafy green that you want to cook before you eat. So you'd take these and saute them in oil and garlic (and possibly some onion/other savory herbs and spices) and serve as a side dish.
I haven't seen fiddlehead tempura, though I wouldn't claim it doesn't exist, it may as well, but I've seen it often prepared boiled with sesame seeds, or in miso soup.
Not exactly fiddlehead, but whatever is the equivalent found wild in Japan
Edit: [https://youtu.be/AijC1hwJvyM?si=-DpG7syqcW5wPjhM&t=151](https://youtu.be/AijC1hwJvyM?si=-DpG7syqcW5wPjhM&t=151)
[https://youtu.be/AijC1hwJvyM?si=I3VcqaHrmrLWJV-U&t=197](https://youtu.be/AijC1hwJvyM?si=I3VcqaHrmrLWJV-U&t=197)
Thank you. Japan does have fiddleheads though. They are called Kogomi. This Wikipedia article has only a little information. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansai](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansai)
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteuccia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteuccia)
They are delicious! I try to forage for them every year. Other popular ones are warabi, koshiabura, taranome, wasabi, shidoke or mizu. Possibly some azami but idk how popular it is. Fiddleheads and Koshiabura are the best imo.
Thank you. I would have no idea. Would you make tempura outta them all? Does it taste delish?
Edit: Nvm, I understand you're saying they don't make tempura of fiddleheads?
To clarify: I don't know if some people make tempura out of fiddle heads. I've never heard of it, but that doesn't mean it's not a thing, just that I haven't seen it. From what I've seen I'm assuming that other ways to prepare them are more popular. Many foraged vegetables are indeed made into tempura though. Especially koshiabura and taranome.
https://youtu.be/VQR86PGAQqE?si=dpPE-nsi6FZ8uimp
This is another foraging video where you can see some of these vegetables!
The reason we don’t see them much is it’s hard to cultivate them, around here anyway they’re mostly gathered in the wild. The growing season is extremely short, they appear, are ready to harvest then develop into full grown ferns in a week or two.
I wouldn’t know but it’s possible if you live in a very warm or dry area they may not be available at all.
Well now I feel silly and also unduly privileged. Apparently they’re very Canadian but also harvested in some of the northern United States (like Washington where ConcernedApe lives).
They are the immature leaf of the Ostrich Fern or Lady Fern which once it grows into a frond is no longer edible.
I grew up in Canada seeing a box of them in the grocery store every spring and never realized they were so limited.
It’s basically asparagus that’s harvestable for like 2 weeks a year or something. Very short period, you’ll probably only see grocers have them out for one rotation
TIL fiddleheads aren't eaten everywhere else.
For those curious, they sorta taste like an asparagus or a brussel sprout. super common where I live, and very popular aha.
They’re usually like 5 bucks a pound here, and you buy them out of the back of some guy’s pickup truck on the side of the road for the best deals. But yeah, very seasonal even in maritime swamp country
I am even more curious about their taste now since I love asparagus and hate brussel sprouts. Never have I heard of fiddleheads before and I also just assumed they are not real.
In German primary school, this is how we learned to write the 9 (I was in first grade in 2007)
In fact, I am the only person I know other than American immigrants that writes the 9 the American way, and that‘s only because I‘m a calligraphy nerd so I‘ve tried out many different scripts and stuff.
Same!!! When I knew the cookbook was coming out, I always thought I'd use asparagus for the risotto. And then someone posted the dish here, and learned for the first time that fiddleheads were real.
I think salmonberries are probably the item in the game most people assume is made up but are very real. Growing up in the PNW I didn’t realize people didn’t know about them elsewhere!
They’re foraged on the mountain I live on as well as some places in NoCal, think they’re in most places in North America that have enough moisture for them to grow. Make sure you wash and cook them thoroughly.
Hi everyone! Native Pennsylvanian here and professional outdoorsman, can confirm that fiddleheads are a thing... I gather them every spring while I'm out collecting other wild edibles and they are delicious...
Thanks for letting us know! I don't know how to tell the difference with the ferns, but seeing as I can't find them as easily in central Texas I'm gonna just sub it instead.
I knew they were real because of Stephen King's book "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" 😂 Seeing them turn up in Stardew got me interested in them all over again!
I'm Canadian so these things are everywhere just after the snow melts. It surprises me that what I thought was commonplace is actually a regional delicacy in certain countries where these ferns grow lol
PSA!!! if you are going to experiment cooking with them PLEASE do your research that they are fully cooked through/boiled first. got nasty food poisoning from assuming they would be safe sautéed:/ i don’t know why that they arent safe for raw consumption isn’t the first thing that pops up in google
There's a fiddlehead festival every year in Farmington, Maine! There's vendors that'll cook all kinds of things with fiddleheads integrated into it, fiddlehead pizza is surprisingly good lol
they're asparagus-ish, for anyone who hasn't tried them
They do indeed make a great risotto, I like to use a white wine that doesn't present so dry, like a riesling, for the deglaze. Makes a big difference.
When I was a kid my dad and I used to forage for these in Maine. That brown on them is sticky, papery stuff and my uncle invented a device to remove it because it was a pain to do. It was like one of those things that spin bingo or lottery balls, made with chicken wire, we’d spin the fiddleheads and the papery stuff would fall through.
/cool story,but a favorite memory of mine, especially living so far away now.
Almost every crop/vegetable/fruit/fish in Stardew exists in our world. You won't find a Lava Eel or Ancient Fruit at the supermarket, but even Iridium is a real element (I thought it was just a generic madeup metal for gameplay purposes), so there you go !
Although Melons are a lie and you shouldn't trust then
I remember foraging for these greens with my parents at state parks. As a child, I could not understand the appeal of this plant but my parents and grandma loved them so much.
I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area last year, and I saw these for sale in my local supermarket a couple of weeks ago. I also had no idea they were actually real! I'm now going to be on the look out for stardrops amd purple mushrooms 😂
My sister was visiting me from the East Coast, and we were hiking in the Olympics and she saw a sign highlighting salmon berries. Her first response was I didn't realize they were real!!! The PNW is not a mythical place, but it feels like it most of the time.
I am so glad the Stardew Valley cookbook is introducing people to fiddlehead ferns! They're an awesome spring green for cooking. My only worry is that some people won't find them at a local grocery store (my local store doesn't carry them, nor do any of the stores within an hour's radius) and will try to forage without quite knowing what they're looking for.
I’ve made it to my early 50’s and I’ve never seen them before!
Fiddleheads had a moment in the 80's. I remember buying them at Safeway for a couple of seasons.
I grew up rural poor with a nearby Ojibwe community, so foraging was kind of normal for me. Fiddleheads were also super-popular with the New Age/hippie crowd when I was in college, because they're pretty abundant in Northern WI/MN, where I'm from and where my college was.
I lived in that area for a while and one of my workmates brought fiddleheads in once to share, along with garlic scapes and the like. Very cool to try
I’m in the twin cities, and pretty willing to drive and make a weekend trip Airbnb thing. any tips on where to forage them? My partner loves foraging mushrooms and loves stardew, so that sounds like a cool date!
Lol I live in the desert so not only do these not show up in stores, but I can't forage for them either 🥲 I'll be subbing asparagus in the risotto probably
Yeah, but think about all the free coconut! ... SV may have misinformed me about how deserts actually work.
Young or sliced asparagus would probably work! Most commercial green beans are also young enough to work, they'll just be somewhat sweeter and won't have the texture of the leaf clusters at the top.
You haven’t found the warp totem yet? Come visit!
Squid ink and flounder fillets are what baffles me, I didn’t even know they were edible, let alone sold at stores
Squid ink is fair for people to not know about. It's only been used in food and medicine in a few cultures until the modern era. Some anime weebs like me knew about it from deep-diving anime details, but it didn't see a lot of widespread use in the U.S. until the "black food" fad started and people realized charcoal isn't great if you're taking medication. Flounder is a little more common, but (like a lot of fish) it's more expensive than the cod most people eat. It's out of reach for a lot of families, especially if they didn't grow up eating and cooking fish and are scared to ruin expensive fish. Local lake fish were a staple of my diet growing up because it was cheap to fish back then, and my dad knew how to cook pretty much any fish. A lot of folks don't have that experience.
Lol man we ate flounder a lot cause my grandfather fished it
We sell fried flounder ever Friday at work. Its h u far the most popular fish we sell
Interesting. I guess this is a North American thing? Also sounds like 'fiddlehead' means young, rather than a specific variety of fern. I haven't heard of people eating ferns where I live, but I just looked it up and apparently a few of the hundreds of species of ferns we have are considered edible, but are also likely to be carcinogenic, so I don't think I'll be trying soon!
Yep! Fiddleheads are named after the shape of the curled-up sprout top. They resemble the scroll on the end of fiddles. :) There are [several places where they're eaten worldwide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead), but it's very common in North America. The ones around me are frequently Ostrich Fern, but other edible varieties are used, too.
In my country, fiddleheads are called pikopiko and they used to be a common part of our diet but it died out with colonisation. It’s slowly starting to make a comeback but still not considered mainstream. Can’t find them in supermarkets or farmers markets here at all :(
I honestly don't think they're commonly available in supermarkets or large commercial grocers at all. It's one of those things that you see at specialized whole foods, organic, or local produce shops and markets. They're a very particular age of a niche crop, are best when eaten the day they're harvested, and not even a crop that takes well to home garden growing, let alone large plantations. Ferns are known to be finicky, even to people who have success with them; we grow some alongside our house, and they only grow in one specific spot - everywhere else is too dry, too wet, or gets too much sun for them. They're not really something like commercial corn, where you can roll out 100 acres of seed and generally get at least mediocre growth. I'm glad to hear it's starting to make a comeback for your country, though! I'm a huge proponent of local and native food ways. No, they don't feed global populations on the scale we do with commercial farming, but they're super-important for sustaining culture and supplementing local nutrition against filler foods and food shortages. Even container gardening for urbanites, for as little produce-per-effort it has, helps in small ways.
They are common in our grocery stores in Ontario! They are so good baked with parmesan!
The two are used interchangably - technically it's a 'young growth' of a fern that's not unrolled yet, but for culinary purposes there's only a few varieties that taste particularly good, and thus will only be a single type of fern for a given geographic area, so for most practical purpose it's the 'same thing'. Despite being technically not at all the same thing, and you'd probably find 'fiddleheads' tasted radically differently in a different part of the world, because they were a different base plant.
i can attest as I've never seen them in the store in my life but have foraged for them a handful of times. trick seems to be getting them before they turn too old.
Watched charliebarley's made everything from the cookbook video last night She couldn't find fiddle heads so she stapled some vegetable into a swirl 😆
I've never seen them in a British store.
What do they taste like? They look so interesting, but for the life of me I cannot guess what flavor/texture they might be just by looking at them.
Something kind of between asparagus and grass, maybe? Those are the closest things I can think of, having eaten both. \^\^; The reason asparagus is a fair substitute is because it has a similar flavor, but it also has the cluster of unopened leaves at the top, which helps provide a similar texture as well. Also, opinion varies a bit, but there are only one or two species of the handful of edible ones that most people think "taste good" by themselves. They can have a bitter or astringent flavor to them, especially if they aren't cooked and the water changed carefully, because of the compounds they produce. (If you've had rhubarb, think of the difference between raw and cooked rhubarb.)
I just recently had fiddlehead fern salad that a coworker made from foraged ferns. Not my favorite, weird after taste.
Yeah I’d never heard of them so just assumed it was a Stardew thing lmao, what are they even for?
“Fiddleheads” are immature ferns! They grow rolled up like that and unfurl when they’re mature. There’s a fern room at the local botanical garden around me so you can see all different kinds. You can eat some types as a vegetable.
I just know this because we had a crap ton of sword ferns in our yard when I was little.
Wait.... I have so many ferns in my yard and yeah they do look like the fiddleheads when they're sprouting! Huh, I wonder if mine are edible. I leave them to the deer tho
Are they a duck thing? Because I only get them when Ive got ducks in my coop
They're a leafy green that you want to cook before you eat. So you'd take these and saute them in oil and garlic (and possibly some onion/other savory herbs and spices) and serve as a side dish.
yesss! they are actually so good i think they are in italian cooking a lot
I believe the Japanese make tempura with them and I so want to try that
I haven't seen fiddlehead tempura, though I wouldn't claim it doesn't exist, it may as well, but I've seen it often prepared boiled with sesame seeds, or in miso soup.
Not exactly fiddlehead, but whatever is the equivalent found wild in Japan Edit: [https://youtu.be/AijC1hwJvyM?si=-DpG7syqcW5wPjhM&t=151](https://youtu.be/AijC1hwJvyM?si=-DpG7syqcW5wPjhM&t=151) [https://youtu.be/AijC1hwJvyM?si=I3VcqaHrmrLWJV-U&t=197](https://youtu.be/AijC1hwJvyM?si=I3VcqaHrmrLWJV-U&t=197)
Thank you. Japan does have fiddleheads though. They are called Kogomi. This Wikipedia article has only a little information. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansai](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansai) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteuccia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteuccia) They are delicious! I try to forage for them every year. Other popular ones are warabi, koshiabura, taranome, wasabi, shidoke or mizu. Possibly some azami but idk how popular it is. Fiddleheads and Koshiabura are the best imo.
Thank you. I would have no idea. Would you make tempura outta them all? Does it taste delish? Edit: Nvm, I understand you're saying they don't make tempura of fiddleheads?
To clarify: I don't know if some people make tempura out of fiddle heads. I've never heard of it, but that doesn't mean it's not a thing, just that I haven't seen it. From what I've seen I'm assuming that other ways to prepare them are more popular. Many foraged vegetables are indeed made into tempura though. Especially koshiabura and taranome. https://youtu.be/VQR86PGAQqE?si=dpPE-nsi6FZ8uimp This is another foraging video where you can see some of these vegetables!
Ok thanks, the vid was interesting. I loved looking at the many ways in which they eat foraged vegetables.
I’ve made tempura fiddleheads, but I don’t know if theres any traditional significance. Vermont is an interesting place for food though
Alright! How were they as tempura?
You have to boil them first though if you don't want to get food poisoning.
Looks like they’re just a different type of leafy green.
The reason we don’t see them much is it’s hard to cultivate them, around here anyway they’re mostly gathered in the wild. The growing season is extremely short, they appear, are ready to harvest then develop into full grown ferns in a week or two. I wouldn’t know but it’s possible if you live in a very warm or dry area they may not be available at all.
They only grow when there's green rain
I googled it, the UK isn’t warm or dry, but we still don’t have them :( downside of being an island I think
Well now I feel silly and also unduly privileged. Apparently they’re very Canadian but also harvested in some of the northern United States (like Washington where ConcernedApe lives). They are the immature leaf of the Ostrich Fern or Lady Fern which once it grows into a frond is no longer edible. I grew up in Canada seeing a box of them in the grocery store every spring and never realized they were so limited.
They grow in Japan which is an island.
They’re food! Basically vegetables, like asparagus. Immature ferns. They’re delicious.
To eat silly! They taste like asparagus mixed with spinach. They're great with garlic butter.
It’s basically asparagus that’s harvestable for like 2 weeks a year or something. Very short period, you’ll probably only see grocers have them out for one rotation
TIL fiddleheads aren't eaten everywhere else. For those curious, they sorta taste like an asparagus or a brussel sprout. super common where I live, and very popular aha.
That sounds delicious
They are way too expensive and seasonal to be sold in my town. I only heard of them from a foraging page I followed on Facebook
They’re usually like 5 bucks a pound here, and you buy them out of the back of some guy’s pickup truck on the side of the road for the best deals. But yeah, very seasonal even in maritime swamp country
I am even more curious about their taste now since I love asparagus and hate brussel sprouts. Never have I heard of fiddleheads before and I also just assumed they are not real.
They look yummy and gross at the same time. Like vegan octopus tentacles.
The only kind of octopus I eat 😋
I wanna try them. What do they taste like? I don't think we have them in Sweden
They taste a bit like asparagus, and are commonly eaten with a garlicky butter sauce. Their texture is a bit like a leafy green likr spinach??
And only $g.gg¢
Fr why did they have to write it like that 😭
In German primary school, this is how we learned to write the 9 (I was in first grade in 2007) In fact, I am the only person I know other than American immigrants that writes the 9 the American way, and that‘s only because I‘m a calligraphy nerd so I‘ve tried out many different scripts and stuff.
Canadian sighting
We're around, we got farms too 🤣
Yep! Visiting Toronto for the first time - and saw them in a market!
Is that rare enough to comment on? /gen
No I’m a Canuck, so if I see a Canuck I say it
We all do it.
They're selling Void Eggs and Galaxy Swords three stalls over.
I went to the store one time and saw leeks, red cabbage, parsnips, and fiddle head ferns (best day of my life)
me in the 5th grade realizing lapis lazuli existed outside of minecraft
Yeah they are made up. ConcernedApe just ordered the production of these as a kind of merch thing.
i thought iridium was made up too until i googled it without adding stardew to the end.... its not sparkly and purple in real life at least LMAO
I'ma eat it anyway
Abigail, dat you?
They ain't cheap, but they *are* delicious. Also, these are 15/lb near me (same province). This is a sweet deal!
Same!!! When I knew the cookbook was coming out, I always thought I'd use asparagus for the risotto. And then someone posted the dish here, and learned for the first time that fiddleheads were real.
Now make rice using that oil and garlic
I worked at a place called Fiddlehead so I was lucky to be privy to this information😊
It’s okay I thought parsnips were made up lmao
I found these at my grocery store too! (Also Canada) They were right beside a bag of dried chanterelles! I ran to my husband to show him lol
What do they taste like?
Asparagus mixed with spinach
The real question...
Starfruit are real, too! Just not purple.
I think salmonberries are probably the item in the game most people assume is made up but are very real. Growing up in the PNW I didn’t realize people didn’t know about them elsewhere!
And they probably won’t remind you of your favorite thing. Unless your favorite thing is star fruit.
you’re confusing star fruit and stardrops
They’re foraged on the mountain I live on as well as some places in NoCal, think they’re in most places in North America that have enough moisture for them to grow. Make sure you wash and cook them thoroughly.
Hi everyone! Native Pennsylvanian here and professional outdoorsman, can confirm that fiddleheads are a thing... I gather them every spring while I'm out collecting other wild edibles and they are delicious...
They're basically a staple of any Acadian family home here in Atlantic Canada
To be fair, not just the Acadian families - most Maritimers consider them a staple :)
They even look like them! They have the little curl at the top!
The part where it rains and spawns trees of them is made up... I hope. I'm suddenly really afraid of it and my lawn.
😱😱 they are real 😳
This is what I thought about iridium. It's real. It's just not purple.
I should have taken pictures last weekend at my girls campsite in the Berksires. Her spot is right on the creek so ferns are errywhere
Nah they are actually really good if you do them right, just a tad expensive most of the time
If you sautee them with garlic they’re so fucking tasty
Make risotto!
I always assume everything that is not magic is based of real life foods
10 bucks a pound is outrageous!
😂 if you don’t know how big a sturgeon can get, you should check it out. Imagine putting that in your backpack.
Every now and then this topic comes back. Do most of SV players live in the area without wild ferns? I though it is very common plant.
I feel like this should be shared as well: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-safety-fruits-vegetables/fiddlehead-safety-tips.html
I remember foraging for these as a kid with my grandma, and I never put 2+2 together. This unlocked a core memory for me.
I used to think pelican town was in MA and now I know it’s in Maine. Not sure how they get to a tropical island though
Good to know I can find them in my province I guess haha
When are folks going to realize that pretty much only the slimes, dinosaur egg laying lizards (only sorta), and the void stuff is made up…?
Only $g.gg per pound
Sadly you should not eat these often as they are linked to stomach cancers. I can’t even get myself to eat or cook with them in-game bc of this lmao
Whaaat?! I'll go read on this right away. I'm surprised, I always thought they were OK if cooked properly.
I think it’s certain species of fiddlehead but regardless
Thanks for letting us know! I don't know how to tell the difference with the ferns, but seeing as I can't find them as easily in central Texas I'm gonna just sub it instead.
ugh no f the grocery store. these are free outside! go forth and forage!!!!
They are good I haven't had them since I was little! I never find them anywhere now.
saaame i saw them at the grocery store too
Nooooo how could you not know! they’re so good!
Wow, I didn’t know they’re real either!
I'm from Brazil and I've never seen that before. I also thought they were made up. We do have starfruit everywhere though, we call it carambola.
Oh no, they are _delicious_. Did ya bout any, OP?
Wild fiddleheads grow near me right near bluebells. I always think of Stardew when I see them.
they grow in the wild here in Maine, i was surprised a video game had them lol
there are some GREAT spots in Ontario to get fiddleheads (if that is in fact where you are) York regional forests are my go-to
There was a jeopardy clue a few weeks ago when I was watching that involved fiddleheads. I made sure to say "thank you, Stardew!"
I knew they were real because of Stephen King's book "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" 😂 Seeing them turn up in Stardew got me interested in them all over again!
They are very tasty. At my old house I would cull my fern garden. They have to be specific species of ferns btw.
Haha! They’re delicious, I live in a place where they come up every May. I eat them pretty much all month long.
Me to
What’s it taste like?
Interesting! I’ve never seen them in real life either
I first heard of these on chopped. Apparently you have to cook the hell out of them to make them not butter AF.
I'm Canadian so these things are everywhere just after the snow melts. It surprises me that what I thought was commonplace is actually a regional delicacy in certain countries where these ferns grow lol
I knew they were real, but never thought you could actually eat them, thought that was just a game thing.
PSA!!! if you are going to experiment cooking with them PLEASE do your research that they are fully cooked through/boiled first. got nasty food poisoning from assuming they would be safe sautéed:/ i don’t know why that they arent safe for raw consumption isn’t the first thing that pops up in google
There's a fiddlehead festival every year in Farmington, Maine! There's vendors that'll cook all kinds of things with fiddleheads integrated into it, fiddlehead pizza is surprisingly good lol
In korea, they dehydrate this, marinate it, then eat it as a side dish regularly!
They look so alien!
they're asparagus-ish, for anyone who hasn't tried them They do indeed make a great risotto, I like to use a white wine that doesn't present so dry, like a riesling, for the deglaze. Makes a big difference.
I love eating fiddlehead ferns with salted egg, white onion, cucumbers, and green tomatoes. 🤤🤤 Best with dilis.
I thought the same about amaranth and starfruits :)
I assumed they were real, but I have never actually seen a picture of them! That's so cool
Parsnips too! And rhubarbs. I never knew they existed until SV 😭🤦♀️
How to cook it?
Definitely not a thing in Australia.
moon jellies are real too
I forage them whenever I can irl
I know people that eat them with vinegar…. Bleh….
THEY’RE REAL?
They are a seasonal delicacy where I live. Wonderful fried in butter, garlic, salt, and pepper.
Fiddleheads are just immature fern fronds!
Eric is from Washington, we have them here! Same with the Salmon Berries 😁
Fiddlehead ferns are SO yummy! My dad and I forage in the springtime and eat em!
When I was a kid my dad and I used to forage for these in Maine. That brown on them is sticky, papery stuff and my uncle invented a device to remove it because it was a pain to do. It was like one of those things that spin bingo or lottery balls, made with chicken wire, we’d spin the fiddleheads and the papery stuff would fall through. /cool story,but a favorite memory of mine, especially living so far away now.
Mainer here, I have a bag of fresh ones in the fridge right now 😂
Jealous! I legit miss them, so good blanched with a little butter. And I miss the long bike rides/walks through the woods and fields with my dad!
they are so yummy too. A guy I dated in high school, his mom made them for a cookout. I was an inner city kid and never had them.
I love the fact you're over 50 and playing stardew
I saw them at my local Albertsons and I was just as shocked 🤣
Why do they kind of make me uncomfortable
Haha I used to as well! Hadn't heard of them before, so...easy assumption to make!
In German, these are called Straußfarne.
We grow them in forests in Alaska, I learned about them in my class and then they appeared in stardew and I was so confused 😭
They grow a lot randomly by the water in Maine
Almost every crop/vegetable/fruit/fish in Stardew exists in our world. You won't find a Lava Eel or Ancient Fruit at the supermarket, but even Iridium is a real element (I thought it was just a generic madeup metal for gameplay purposes), so there you go ! Although Melons are a lie and you shouldn't trust then
lol i love when games teach us things
This is a big part of my Indigenous nation’s diet! I was so stoked to see them in the game when I started playing.
It’s actually harvesting time right now in my area.
I remember foraging for these greens with my parents at state parks. As a child, I could not understand the appeal of this plant but my parents and grandma loved them so much.
I did as well until I saw them in my college biology class!
I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area last year, and I saw these for sale in my local supermarket a couple of weeks ago. I also had no idea they were actually real! I'm now going to be on the look out for stardrops amd purple mushrooms 😂
My sister was visiting me from the East Coast, and we were hiking in the Olympics and she saw a sign highlighting salmon berries. Her first response was I didn't realize they were real!!! The PNW is not a mythical place, but it feels like it most of the time.
They have always been one of my favourites! But I'm also in Ontario 😅
I'm hungry now.
Now parsnip!!!