Man, that sounds good! I like fennel but rarely cook it. And I've made my own mustard (usually the spicy stuff for cheese & summer sausage), but I've not harvested the seeds.
We used to grow yellow, brown and black mustard and harvest the seeds, but it was just too much trouble for something that costs less than $2 in the store even here, but wife discovered this year that she can harvest the flowers and add vinegar. When put through the blender, it tastes a bit like wasabi and is a little green. Black mustard flowers are the hottest. We have allowed the mustard to reseed, so mustard greens have become one of our earliest spring crops. Now she also has a use for the flowers.
That's interesting. I have read that the black seeds are the spiciest, but when I grind some and substitute it for a like-kind quantity of ground yellow mustard, it seems to take the edge off of the heat of my mustard. I will say that black mustard seed sprouts are very hot.
My granddaughter and I had chili dogs with cheese (and mine with onions), potato chips and dill pickles. Later we're having homemade banana splits. I love being a grandma.
If I were a king, someone else would do my cooking. Well, at least I'd have someone to clean my kitchen.
My little granddaughter goes home tomorrow , so I let her pick whatever she wants for dinner tonight. We'll be on our way to Chick-fil-a in a couple of hours.
I usually buy chicken fingers and taters when my small pennies from heaven fall every month. Not this morning because I shopped early and the deli had not cooked lunch meals. I was crushed and looking forward to those taters and chicken fingers. I had to improvise tonight and had one of those Tyson Farms slaughterhouse floors chicken paddies with rice and sausages and peppers. Not so bad. So hot out there when I came home from shopping I went to bed and slept until 6pm. I went into the bathroom and saw no cats so I guess they must have a cooler place to stay when it gets extra hot. No relief in sight and rain is out of the question unless a storm well north of us for tomorrow night should swing a bit further to the west. One can hope