One of my readers told me recently that he thought my newspaper column last year about how I love to eat the buds of those orange day lilies, which are thicker in the summer than thorns on a locust, was all a tongue-in-cheek effort to try to get gullible folks to do something silly. But people, I am as serious as three-day blizzard when I say that those buds, cut just before they bloom, are delicious.
He remembered the column I wrote telling folks I had envelopes filled with nearly invisible morel mushroom seeds for sale for $5 each and the one where I said that raw gizzard shad soaked in ketchup tasted just like sardines. I regret those feeble attempts at humor, but that’s the truth about day lily buds. Sauté them like asparagus or roll them in eggs and flour and fry them and you will be amazed how good they are. In fact they have been called “poor man’s asparagus.”
They grow all over my place here on Lightnin’ Ridge and I like them so much that hardly any ever get to bloom! Don’t take my word for it, ask someone who is honest and trustworthy!
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