Fennel pollen

Are you looking to clean up your diet without clearing your plate of delicious restaurant-quality food? If so, try these easy crab cakes that burst with flavor, along with a crunchy, fresh side salad that adds vibrant color and detoxifying nutrients.

Braising sounds fancy, doesn’t it? This classic, refined cooking method promises a combination of caramelized flavor and long-cooked tenderness, nudged along by gentle heat and a solicitous chef. To braise vegetables gives them their proper due, and it’s the perfect treatment for all kinds of spring produce — especially wedges of sweet fennel. Fennel and shallots are perfect braising partners.

This pasta dish can be as simple or complicated as you want it to be. Written here, it's a celebration of spaghetti at its most simple. If you want to jazz it up, try some finely crumbled sausage, charred corn, or a bit of chopped spring onion or leek.

Learn all about fennel pollen, including its flavor profile, what it's used for, and where to buy it.

Wild fennel is considered an invasive weed, but in the culinary world, it's coveted for the fresh golden pollen from its fragrant flower heads. Here's how you can harvest the rare spice (for free!).

Adding fennel pollen cranks the flavor of fresh fennel bulb up to 11. If you've never tried cooking with it, this simple dish of spaghetti tossed with orange zest, garlic, and mint is a nice introduction, but do be careful—just a teaspoon of fennel pollen is enough for a full pound of spaghetti.

Traditional pots de creme with the delicate flavoring of fennel pollen

These fennel pollen-crusted pork chops are my most requested recipe by friends and family. This dish results in juicy yet crispy pork chops with tons of flavor.

I didn’t want what is left of summer to slip away without sneaking in this no-recipe recipe for zucchini carpaccio. The poor old zucchini – we call them courgettes in the UK – doesn’t get a lot of love. They are the also-rans compared to summer’s brightest stars – saline-sweet tomatoes, glossy eggplants, sky-climbing beans, … Continue reading