"Dee Randall" > wrote:

>Is it just me -- or do other people not buy leeks and fennel because they
>are just not fresh enough and too darned costly?
>
>I am looking at some stocks in the recipe book "Saveur" that I just
>recommended the OP to look at for French food. Their stocks are made with
>leeks, some include fennel. These vegetables are sooo expensive. Does
>everyone buy these on a regular basis except me? They are always available
>at the grocery store.
>Dee Dee

While leeks are available in abundance at most decent-size grocery
stores around here, I don't recall ever seeing fennel. I probably
just overlooked it, but with leeks sometimes 2 or 3 of the "sections"
in the veg display are loaded with it. And yes, it's not exactly
cheap, but you can save the green part for stocks and such. I've
heard that you can sautee the hard green part in butter and eat it,
but I've not tried that yet.

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The Doc says my brain waves closely match those of a crazed ferret.
At least now I have an excuse.