and fennel least, a mild fish lie tilapia is great with these kind of fennel least. >> and add pepper and salt. we'll finish it off with red pepper flakes. i have to have that. and could you put a little bit of this? beautiful. a little lemon on top and parsley. that's all. healthy, delicious. look how beautiful. it's a picture. >> it is and it's packed with protein. >> beautiful. >> fantastic. >> thank you, bella. >> thank you. >> healthy. ,, look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] switch and add a wireless receiver. get u-verse tv for $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles rethink possible. [ female announcer

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. >> this is the field of fennel. and you'll notice it's got a nice white bulb and a beautiful fern. and, really, all the plant's useable in cooking. >> cooking with it is one thing, but just getting people to try it is the first thing farmers like the d'arrigos hope to do. recently, they teamed up with local chef todd fisher and together the farming team and the cooking whiz whipped up new recipes for some old favorites. and in the end, they came up with a whole new way to get people to eat their veggies. >> to see the realization on people's face when you prepare it properly and they go, wow, this is something that i--wow, i really like this now, as opposed to this astringent, bitter vegetable. so, i like working with it because it's a challenge for me as a chef, but it's also so gratifying to see a guest enjoy something that they may not have otherwise had the opportunity to try. well, this is our--the rapi-deparini, so, it's got the rapini and the caramelized fennel in there done in that low-fat yogurt, so it's re

now we have a fennel bulb. we're gonna cut just across, very thin. important to cut the fennel really thin. then we're gonna go to our bowl, put everything in. now we're gonna add some shallot, fine herbs. it's a, uh, herb blend that we use here quite a bit. it's tarragon, chervil, parsley, and chive. this is, uh, chef's blue cheese. it's aged in the sierra nevada, real nice blue cheese. champagne vinaigrette. just drizzle a little in there. then we'll season it with some fresh black pepper, little kosher salt, and just give it-- give it a good mix, make sure the apples aren't all stuck together. then we'll go to our plate. you wanna plate it in stages so that you can kind of build up a little bit of height. yet letting it fall naturally wherever it--wherever it tends to go. and there is our endive salad with fuji apple and chef's blue cheese. >> wanna create for yourself one of the unique recipes from today's show? log on to our website at cacountry.tv for full details. this segment is brought to you by the california farm bureau federation. the peo

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throw in our herbs, thymyme, rosemayor and h he fennel seed. to want to get it on? >> r rachael: two onion and garlics cancel each other out. garlic and onion get sweet when you cook them. >> okay. >> rachael: now take the olive oil, evoo, slather it all over that, just enough to coat it. >> oohthis, feels good. >> rachael: doesn't that feel good? >> ooh, yeah. >> rachael: take the kosher or sea salt and pepper with your dry hand. >> with my dry hand. >> rachael: sprinkle that over. beautiful. >> is that too much? does it matter? >> rachael: that is great. you are the boss of your food. and salt. >> that is not too much salt? >> rachael: it is up to you, your dish. if you are watching sodium, use less, use more for the citrus flavor, it will compensate for less salt. take this mixture and i'll show you with one inch of the end and just pss all of that into and around the pork. >> okay. >> rachael: just cover completely in this. >> pork massage therapist. >> rachael: correct. so now all you have to do, all the flavor is herere, all you he to do

so this is fennel. >> you can make them into a tea. this is an example of a product that they have in brazil that grandmothers give to the children to help relax them. it's got all of these herb, plus a little sugar. >> gretchen: all right. feed your kids candy tonight. great advice. thanks so much. more "fox & friends" three minutes away [ male announcer ] running out of steam? ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could've had a v8. in the juice aisle. made gluten-free cereals in a bunch of yummy flavors. like cinnamon chex, honey nut chex, and chocolate chex... we're in cereal heaven. so thanks. from the mcgregors, 'cause we love chex. it's a reality check. i had my reality check when i'd be sitting there with my friends who had their verizon phones and i'd be sitting there like "mine's still loading!" i couldn't get email. i couldn't stream movies. i couldn't upload any of our music. th

fennel from a local farm over in yolo. >> but the bulk of this produce doesn't stax here very long. within a few hours, much of it is trucked out to restaurants and businesses in northern california, some delivered by mills himself. he spends hours on the road, visiting farmers and chefs, taking produce from one to the other, and educating both parties along the way. >> may need a look at the progress of a particular crop or report back, maybe some feedback, to the farmer about how the chefs are using it or what they might be looking for in the near future. >> in many ways, produce express and people like jim mills are the link between 1,300 different restaurants in northern california and produce from all over the golden state. today's visit took us to del rio botanical farm in yolo county, where suzanne peabody ashworth was keen to get reaurants to start trying the fresh fava beans and greens she's growing. >> so we'll take some of these greens into a couple of restaurants this morning and see what the chefs want to do with them. in sacramento, there's been an explosion of restaur