What is your favorite spring food?

[Banana Brain]

Strawberries! Its an emotional-food thing, because when I think of spring I think of being young and my mother making shortcakes and letting my siblings and I top them with strawberries and a ten-second spray of whipped-cream.

 

[cloudybutnice]

Definitely asparagus, closely followed by rhubarb. I particularly like asparagus cooked in the normal way then popped under the grill with cheese on top for a couple of minutes. I love rhubarb cooked with ginger and dark muscavado sugar. Done that way it doesn't make your teeth sing like the bright pink stuff we used to get at school!

 

[bright]

Fiddleheads (but I can't find them here), blood oranges, and of course mushrooms.

 

[BreezyCooking]

Bright - this company, "Earthly Delights", carries fresh fiddleheads in season & frozen fiddleheads out of season (which I'm dying to try to see how they are!!). While I haven't ordered fiddleheads from them before, I have ordered other things & they're a nice company to deal with. Very good customer service.

http://earthy.com/?EDI=d482fbb92446181293d648b0d4068fad

 

[Ishbel]

In most of mainland Europe, white asparagus is the favoured way of raising the veg. It is a bit like 'forcing' rhubarb - it is kep 'earthed up' and that makes the stems stay white. Got to say, I much prefer green, even if it does make one's urine go an interesting colour....

 

[auntdot]

OK, will go along with asparagus.

But the item we most look forwared to in the local farm stand is raw peanuts.

We boil them, of course, with a toss of salt.

Nothing is better.

OK, OK, a lot of things are better, but it is really a treat. And it tells us that Spring is really here.

Take care and God bless.