We use the bulb in many recipes from different vegetarian
cookbooks and like it. There are some butterflies whose
larvae use it as a host plant, so we don't have much luck
growing it for seed. It's mostly grown for the butterflies
around here.
I use the seed more as a medicinal herb than I do a
cooking spice. I put them in a tea ball and steep in hot
water to make a tea, which I then cool and use by
eyedroppers full in my and my pets eyes. It will clear up
itchy red eyes and eye infections. If you have tried the
oily opthalmalic ointments prescribed by doctors and
thought they were gross, and couldn't wear contact lenses
because of them, then this herbal medicine is for you. It
stings slightly, but then brings great relief. Eye
infection is usually gone the next day.
--Sage
Way Out in Texas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:47:16 -0500
EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
What am I missing here?
When I think of fennel, I think seeds. I've never
used/eaten anything
but the seeds.