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Saturday, November 5. 2022

Provencal Cooking, with Fennel and Seafood


Fennel grows like a weed - and literally as a roadside weed - all over Europe. A celery-like thing, with a cool licorice flavor. You can munch on it raw, sautee it, or pickle it either as refrigerator pickles or real pickles. Fenuil in French, finocchio in Sicily and Italy.


It's perfect with simple seafood. Here's my first course (lousy photo): Warm salad of sliced octopus on a bed of sauteed fennel.



Main course (which was not really needed) -  a rare filet of French beef with a jus with olives, not mushrooms. And usual Euroland runny mashed taters.


Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 15:13 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Jeez. Gimme a cheeseburger and fries.
#1 i hate olives on 2022-11-05 16:49 (Reply)
Some of us could live on burgers and fries.

Nonetheless I usually find the food posts interesting, even if they are not to my taste.
#1.1 feeblemind on 2022-11-06 18:44 (Reply)
The best thing about fresh fennel are the seed pods that start to develop after they bloom, but before the seeds mature. Bite down on one sometime. It's a fennel explosion in your mouth. Yum!
#2 Aggie on 2022-11-05 16:52 (Reply)
Best part of European cooking is being 5km away....
#3 Furminator on 2022-11-05 20:01 (Reply)
The problem with fennel is that it has a taste like licorice. For some of us that taste is horrific. If you love it I am happy for you but please don't tell me that I'll love it.
#4 Rocky on 2022-11-05 21:44 (Reply)
I agree completely that fennel tastes like licorice.
#4.1 JC on 2022-11-06 10:46 (Reply)
I have traveled all over Europe. I have often enjoyed the food and I have also been disappointed (as in "what is this?") by the food. But I have always enjoyed the restaurants and the ambiance. Paris and France in general tops that list but Italy, Switzerland and Bavaria is a close second. I would rather eat a ham sandwich at the top of the Zugspitze or Lauterbrunnen than enjoy the finest restaurant in NY City. That is what I miss the most, the food and wine, not so much.
#5 OneGuy on 2022-11-06 14:54 (Reply)

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