{"id":12325,"date":"2013-05-29T15:21:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T22:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2017-03-24T21:56:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:56:02","slug":"roasted-fiddlehead-blt-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=12325","title":{"rendered":"Roasted Fiddlehead BLT Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/apples-fiddleheads-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-12326\" alt=\"apples-fiddleheads-015\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/apples-fiddleheads-015-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/apples-fiddleheads-015-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/apples-fiddleheads-015-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a>1 1\/2 heads romaine, clean and dry and cut into bite-sized pieces<\/p>\n<p>6 slices bacon, preferably Vermont Smoke &amp; Cure, or other good-quality<\/p>\n<p>Olive oil<\/p>\n<p>1 pt. grape tomatoes, cut in half<\/p>\n<p>3\/4 lb. fiddlehead ferns, brown ends trimmed, soaked in 1\/2 water, 1\/2 white vinegar for 1\/2 hour<\/p>\n<p>6 or 8 whole cloves of garlic, with peel<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 c. Jasper Hill Bayley Hazen or Bonneview Mossend Blue (Blue Cheese)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Place the lettuce on large dinner plates and put aside.\u00c2\u00a0 Cook the bacon until crisp.\u00c2\u00a0 Use a fork to remove from pan, and place on paper towel to remove extra fat.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep pan over medium heat, add tomatoes, fiddleheads, and garlic cloves with a splash of olive oil and sprinkle of kosher salt, and cook until fiddleheads are crisp tender.\u00c2\u00a0 (You can do this on the stovetop, or \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as I did \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in the oven at about 400 degrees.)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Add \u00c2\u00a0tomato-fiddlehead mixture to lettuce, being sure to scrape\/spoon out any juices in pan.\u00c2\u00a0 If desired (as I did), peel garlic cloves and add to plate.\u00c2\u00a0 Crumble bacon over top, add crumbled blue cheese, and serve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 1\/2 heads romaine, clean and dry and cut into bite-sized pieces 6 slices bacon, preferably Vermont Smoke &amp; Cure, or other good-quality Olive oil 1 pt. grape tomatoes, cut in half 3\/4 lb. fiddlehead ferns, brown ends trimmed, soaked in 1\/2 water, 1\/2 white vinegar for 1\/2 hour 6 or 8 whole cloves of garlic, with peel 1\/2 c. Jasper Hill Bayley Hazen or Bonneview Mossend Blue (Blue Cheese) &nbsp; Place the lettuce on large dinner plates and put&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=12325\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,156,50,136],"class_list":["post-12325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salads-dressings","tag-bacon","tag-foraged-item","tag-pnw","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12327,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions\/12327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}