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This pizza is a celebration of fennel from Brandon Gray, the chef at Los Angeles pizza pop-up Brandoni Pepperoni. Thinly sliced fresh fennel adorns the pie prebake—along with blistered Sun Gold ...

Instructions: Heat oven to 450 degrees. Season pork with salt and pepper. In an ovenproof fry pan over medium heat, warm oil and melt butter. Brown pork 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer to a platter.

Ask MenuPages: What Is Confit? I’m confused. I always thought confit was a way of cooking meat–like duck–in its own fat, but the other night at Fleur De Lys, there was a dish that included fennel ...

Cooked under low heat, fillets, imbued with fennel and lime, become velvety soft, almost like a confit (in half the time, and with a lot less oil). By Melissa Clark Usually, I am a high-heat roaster.

Fennel-confit chicken wings. Yum. Photo: Bunrab Though we haven’t made it down to San Mateo in a few months, our friends over at Bunrab have! And they give us a pictorial of a meal at recent opener ...