Recipe

My son doesn’t like fennel. He hates it. In the past, every child was allowed to have three things that s/he really didn’t like and wouldn’t eat. For Laszlo, fennel was one of them. When I made this fennel, I was able to persuade him to taste it anyway. And? He found it delightful. So this recipe is even suitable for fennel haters. It is buttery soft, sweet, incredibly full of flavor and tastes like more.

So I’m not a potato eater at all. Not interesting. Needless filling of the stomach. That kind of thoughts. But prepared this way, I keep relishing it. One baked potato left on a dish on the counter. And it’s gone soon. In my mouth. Make this recipe with good firm jacket potatoes, they are the best.

I heard about hummus soup and thought only one thing: I need to make it. And fast. And I prepared it. My heart was beating with anticipation. Actually, my expectations were so high that it could only be disappointing. But, you guessed it: it was overwhelmingly delicious. Almost too good to be true. Much tastier than expected. And I didn’t think that alone. The structure. The taste. The mouthfeel. The image. Everything is right, but really everything.

Turnips, I’d never seen, held, let alone tasted one. But I got some from the market garden where we get a lot of our vegetables. “See if you can do something with it,” she said. They lay in the refrigerator for days. Everytime I saw them, but left them there. “Ga je nog wat met me doen?” And then I decided it had to be done. I thought of mustard. I thought of the oven. I thought of fresh basil. And boy, it was so good. I decided to serve it in the restaurant the week after. Everyone just has to taste this.