A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge . For the 4th week of the Dark Days Challenge, I served locally fished albacore tuna baked in fennel [...]
Archive for the ‘Fennel’ Category
Dark Days 4: Tuna and a Fennel Fest
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Fennel, Fish, Preserving, tagged Using all parts of fennel on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Waste Not Want Not: Braised Fennel, Tomato-Orange Sauce, and Manicotti with Fennel Frond Pesto
Posted in Fennel, Pasta, Pesto, Tomato, Waste Not Want Not, tagged fennel frond pesto, pasta with tomatos and fennel, tomato-orange-fennel sauce on October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After a weekend of canning tomatoes, including a lovely Provençale-style tomato sauce with orange and rosemary, I had a little leftover sauce, a leftover half of an orange (precious at this time of year) and a large (3-foot-long) bulb of Florence fennel with stalks and fronds intact, courtesy of our CSA farm. I hadn’t figured [...]
Preserving Herbs Part 3: Freezing
Posted in Fennel, Herbs, Preserving, tagged fennel frond pesto, freezing herbs, Freezing marjoram, Freezing pesto, freezing savory and sage, Marjoram pesto on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A while ago, I posted Parts 1 and 2 of this series on preserving herbs for use year round. The second involved preserving herbs in salt (sage in that case) and the first preserving tender herbs in vinegar, including tarragon, basil and dill. Throughout the year, depending on the season, I also preserve herbs in [...]
Braised Fennel with Fennel Frond Pesto
Posted in Fennel, Pesto, tagged braised fennel, fennel frond pesto on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The first little fennel bulbs of the season popped up at our CSA farm attached to a humungous (2 foot-long) stalk of beautiful, fresh fronds. Not wanting to waste any of that bounty, I made fennel frond pesto, froze some in a little tube to chop up later, and stirred some into braised fennel. When [...]
Risotto with Fennel and Fennel Frond Pesto
Posted in Fennel, Pesto, Risotto, tagged fennel frond pesto, Fennel risotto on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Risotto with Fennel and Fennel Frond Pesto Olive oil and/or butter 1-2 bulbs fennel, trimmed and thinly sliced lengthwise Squeeze of lemon juice Trimmings of fennel stalks – fronds separated from stalks 4-5 cups of chicken or vegetable stock Fennel fronds Olive oil Salt Clove of garlic (optional) Pine nuts ½ medium onion, diced Olive [...]
Peas and Fennel
Posted in Fennel, tagged Peas and fennel on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was excited to get fennel from our CSA early in the season. In past years, the farmers have grown it late and it’s been a little tough. Unlike what you see at the grocery store, which is trimmed (for good reason), this fennel is about 30 inches high, with tons of fronds and a [...]
Quick Midweek Suppers: Boil the Water, Light the Oven
Posted in Cauliflower, Fennel, Pasta, Tomato, Zucchini, tagged Cauliflower, Fennel, Mushroom, Pasta, Roasted vegetables on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Since I cook fresh evening meals everyday and come home late from work, I need to have a lot of tricks for quickly pulling off tasty, nutritious suppers within a reasonable time. When I don’t have anything specific in mind, the first things I do when I walk in the door are light the oven [...]
Paper Chef 49: Seafood Pot Pie with Fennel and Peppers
Posted in Fennel, Paper Chef, Peppers, Pie, Seafood, Shellfish, tagged Fennel, Peppers, Pie, Seafood on February 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Prawns, fennel, sweet pepper and passion. Hmm. Lots of possibilities for this Paper Chef challenge. Luckily I shopped for the seafood before a giant winter storm shut us in. One of my passions is to seek and use the freshest, most local, and hopefully organic ingredients. With nothing called a prawn in our markets, I [...]
OK Paris: The Correspondence Course 1
Posted in Carrots, Citrus fruit, Fennel, OK Paris, Salad, tagged Citrus, Fennel, Salad on January 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
OK (my son and his fiancé, who really do use that moniker) have relocated from New York to Paris for the first half of 2010 and are reveling in their experience with French food, whether eating out or shopping in the markets. (First impression of the open-air markets: why shop in a grocery store, ever?) [...]
