Food for the Ravenous Soul
It is FINALLY here! THE FENNEL FRIDAY COOKING CLUB DAY! Not only is today FENNEL FRIDAY but we are introducing our awesome Fennel Friday Cooking Club Bloggers and their awesome Fennel Pollen recipes!! Each month will feature a different theme and Pollen Ranch Fennel Pollen Spice Blends. Pollen Ranch is sending their incredible Fennel Pollen blends [...] Read more »
Take away my gluten, restrict my sodium, even my meat but cheese? I cannot picture a world without cheese. Fennel Friday is highlighting an Iconic Pairing – Cheese and Fennel today with some salivating recipes! A few of my favorite cheeses to pair with Fennel are: goat cheese, blue cheese, Gorgonzola, Gruyere, Asiago, Parmesan, Mascarpone [...] Read more »
Happy Fennel Friday! We have a Superfood theme going for Fennel Friday this week – Quinoa and Fennel recipes! I cannot think of a combo that could make me happier – nutrient and flavor packed, you can pair so many things with fennel and quinoa. I decided to share a recipe for Fennel Pollen scented [...] Read more »
It seems like lately that I cannot get enough beets. Since my good friend and Ayurvedic Practitioner, Lakshmi, calls my beet craving an “Intelligent Craving”, I will be excited that beets seem to be winning over the glazed donuts. Intelligent, indeed. Fennel Friday has arrived and when looking at my munching this week, Beet Chips [...] Read more »
This was originally posted by me over at Foodies Unite but I thought I would like to share since we are all about SOUPS AND STEWS this week! I adore making soup. I love prepping all of the ingredients, I like getting all the flavors to come together and I love the smell of goodness [...] Read more »
Fennel Friday is HERE and we have been playing with fennel fruit this week. Pairing citrus and just about any fruit is a no-brainer – they mesh wonderfully! Putting raw fennel in a salad is crunchy, aromatic, tasty and good for you – so what are you waiting for? Start creating some salads for lunch, [...] Read more »
The deep, cold depths of Winter are usually given over to hearty stews, pots of steaming soup … winter comfort foods to stave off the big freeze. My taste buds are also craving Spring … even the memory of Spring and what better way to celebrate Spring (and Fennel Friday) in the midst of Winter [...] Read more »
Risotto makes me happy; cooking it, eating it, standing over it and coaxing all of that delicious flavor into those teeny little grains of arborio rice. I can eat it warm or cold – straight from the fridge is gorgeous and I like it in the morning, afternoon and evening (and sometimes at midnight!). Today [...] Read more »
With Christmas Eve fast approaching, I am migrating some recipes onto The Hungry Goddess from Foodies Unite. What recipes, you ask? The Seafood Recipes! And why the seafood recipes? For the Feast of the Seven Fishes! Every Christmas Eve for many, many years, my Mom prepares the Feast of the Seven Fishes; seven dishes that [...] Read more »
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 »