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Love! As this week of love begins, let’s celebrate with seasonal chocolate, roots, fennel and brilliant magenta blood oranges.
While chocolate and cocoa are usually reserved for truffles and heart shaped boxes, I always enjoy giving the dark goodness the savory treatment.
Start with the Cocoa Vinaigrette. It can play up the Cacao Nib Beet Slaw or the Warm Cacao Chard Salad for a dinner together or mix and match it with the Roasted Cauliflower Soup and Cheese Toasts. For a meat-lover, sear up the Peppercorn Steak and sauce it up with the Cabernet-Cocoa Sauce with a Cherry Chili Chard.
Of course, the sweet side is also delightful for breakfast or snacks with treats such as the Chocolate Granola, Cocoa Dusted Almonds, Cacao Almond Date Truffles or the Nutella Chocolate Hazelnut Spread. The Cherry Amaretto Scones are lovely with the nutty chocolate spread as well.
Because it is also a time for pinks + reds, the Blood Orange Fish is a romantic dish that is also seasonally perfect. Serve the fish with the Brown-Butter Walnut Broccolini. Blood oranges can also fancy up Quinoa as well to serve with the Braised Fennel, Turnips and White Beans. Leftovers of the Fennel-Turnip dish can be blended up into a lovely Fennel, Turnip + White Bean Spread for Almond-Herb Crackers, too.
May your week be full of love starting with your tummy!
Cook seasonally. Eat consciously. Live well,
