Re: Sunday dinner

Jill McQuown wrote on 6/2/2025 7:34 PM:

On 6/2/2025 6:59 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-06-02 4:49 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:

On 6/2/2025 10:16 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

We had a tomahawk steak. It was a little on the small side for that cut, about 2.5 lb.  It turned out nicely, though a little underdone for my wife's taste. We had some fiddleheads and a salad with blue cheese dressing with it.
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I sure do wish I could find fiddleheads!  They don't grow this far south.  Allegedly they are available frozen but I've sure never seen them in a freezer case.

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They are a little more common here now than they used to be. My wife had told me there is a fiddlehead farm in Port Colborne. I did an online search and found that this is the only fiddlehead farm in North America. Well, according to an 18 year old news article, it was the only one. They used to be picked in the wild in New Brunswick. They were seldom available and were expensive.  This week's batch was quite cheap... for fiddleheads.
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Many years ago there was a poster to this ng (Kendall Stratton) who lived in Maine.  He picked and sent some resh fiddleheads to me in TN. It was a comedy of errors because it was shipped in a container with dry ice. I came home from work to find a note on the door with a notice saying I wasn't home so it had been returned to the Post Office.  I took the note off the door and drove to the Post Office.  I understand you have my package?  Oh!  They had put it back on the truck and it's back out for delivery.  I drove home.  It wasn't there.  Another note about a delivery attempt on the door. I called.  Oh, well they brought it back here because you weren't home.  DUH, I was just there!  Back and forth like that.  Finally, stay there, they are on the way.  I finally did get them.  Fresh fiddleheads, still cold.  They were delicious!>
I don't recall ever seeing frozen fiddleheads.

Those crabs your majesty just described were FROZEN, if they were packed in dry ice. Dry ice has a temperature of about -110 degrees F.