fennel, endive, radicchio salad with smoked trout and toasted fennel vinaigrette.

1 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced

1/4 small red onion, thinly sliced

1 endive, sliced on a bias

1/2 small radicchio, thinly sliced

1 small handful baby lettuces

1/2 smoked trout fillet, flaked apart

Vinaigrette

1 tsp toasted fennel, ground

1 small shallot, finely chopped

1/2 lemon, juiced

1/4 cup white wine vinegar

1/2 cup olive oil

salt and pepper to taste

To make the vinaigrette combine shallot, toasted fennel, lemon juice and vinegar in a mixing bowl, gradually whisk in olive oil until emulsified. Season with salt and pepper.

Toss salad ingredients with vinaigrette and serve.

Comments

[citronetvanille]

Beautiful and fresh salad, definitely my kind of salad with a combination of wonderful flavors.

[Justin & Lori]

it's one of my favorite salads, the smokiness of the trout works so well with the bright flavor of the fresh fennel.

[Troy Linck]

My recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Take Brussels sprouts peel outer layer leaves to clean them up and cut them in half. Toss in a big bowl with a little olive oil and a sprinkle with salt and pepper. Then sprinkle brown sugar over them and stir the sprouts one more time. Get Pancetta at the butchers/meat/deli counter and have them cut them into small cubes - about half inch cubed - maybe a little smaller. Place them in a sauce pan and brown them and cook about half the fat out. Make sure that they are still fairly tender. They will get roasted more with the brussels sprouts. Add / stir them and about a table spoon of the rendered fat to the sprouts and them lay them out on a cookie sheet. Roast them in the oven at 400 ( for 35 minutes or until the outsides are toasted around the edges. Turn them over once or twice to brown them evenly. Taste them to see if you want ad more salt pepper or brown sugar - the roasting of the sprouts should bring out a lot of sweetness but sometimes the sprout are a little bitter and may need a little more brown sugar. If you like you can substitute Maple syrup or Maple sugar. Honey doesn't work...