This dish always brings me to Christmas time in Venezuela. Eating melon wrapped with prosciutto is a time honored tradition along with eating red grapes with seeds for fortune and good luck in the new year. For Fennel Friday, I added a new twist, using an insanely sweet honeydew from the farmers market. On top is a small [...] Read more »
The mini lemon goat cheese caprese was made as an ode to the passing summer season. The mini caprese is a nice way to use some of the beautiful tomatoes at the peak of their sweetness. The fresh basil and the lemon Montchevre goat cheese rolled in Pollen Ranch fennel pollen combine to make a [...] Read more »
Fennel Friday is HERE and we have been playing with fennel salads this week much to my delight! Putting raw fennel in a salad is crunchy, aromatic, tasty and good for you – so what are you waiting for? Start creating some spring salads for lunch, dinner and in between! The Fennel and Blood Orange [...] Read more »
Spring is almost here and the selection of fresh spring veggies that is available with more frequency just makes me DROOL and it also makes me want to make salads … lots and lots of salads! Super healthy, lightly dressed and bite after bite of guiltless crunchy pleasure … that is a fennel and asparagus [...] Read more »
I love cooking but I am not a baker or pastry person, unless we are talking about consuming it. Then, I am all about dessert and pastries but don’t ask me to bake them. In preparation for this Fennel Friday, I found a recipe for a Creamy Gorgonzola, Fennel & Pear Tart that called to [...] Read more »
I have a passion for garlic. It’s all my Dad’s fault – as an example, I just stopped by his house and simmering on the stove was a pot of blacks beans, pork and 15 cloves of garlic. Now some people would think that the 15 cloves of garlic was hyperbole but no. There are [...] Read more »