Italian Sausage, Potatoes & Fiddleheads

Day 206

Fiddlehead season is here and I bought a 5 lb bag off the back of a truck today.

Italian Sausage, Potatoes & Fiddleheads

Italian Sausage

A Yves product, made with soy. They're square, which is perfect, because we were really craving a square meal.

Italian "sausages" and onions frying in peanut oil

There was a sale on ciabatta sausage buns at Atlantic SuperStore so we went with those. Even though we usually enjoy our buns toasted, we thought these ones would be better steamed.

Ciabatta buns steaming

Served with fried onions, ketchup, dijon and Lady Ashburnham pickles (Carrie Weeks' favorite pickle).

Mom's Lady Ashburnham pickles, ketchup & dijon

Mashed Potatoes

Boiled, then mashed and whipped with butter and cream. Served with Lady Ashburnham pickles.

Potatoes

Fiddleheads

I like fiddleheads a lot but Laura looooves them so much. The fact is, they are seasonal and stocking up on them to carry you through a year is a lot of work. 5 lbs will do us 4 or 5 meals. They were cleaned, but we washed them and cut the brown ends off each one. Next, they go into a big pot of boiling water for a 5 minute blanch, then into a bowl of ice water to stop the heating process, and finally, they're drained and stored in freezer bags. Not a 10 minute job.

About 1 lb fiddleheads

For tonight's meal, we washed, trimmed, boiled, drained  about a pound of them, then served them with butter and salt.

Italian sausage, mashed potatoes & fiddleheads

Reviews/Comments

Laura: Ohhhh, I'm so full. All meals involving fiddleheads get a 10.

She also thought there was too much sausage to bun ratio.

I give the entire meal a 10. My potatoes...my ladies...fiddleheads...and loved the sausages. They're really good!