So close!

OK, so there are VERY few foods that we don't eat in our house.  I don't care for a couple things such as, sea urchin and brussel sprouts but my husband has a small list of foods he does not like.  It isn't long but it includes olives, capers, and fennel.  I happen to love all three.  I always think that if I prepare one of these items differently he will miss them and viola! we will have a list with one less item.  This is NEVER the case!  So goes the story of dinner on Tuesday...

I found a simple recipe that had two things that appealed to me. 

1) It used a paste of garlic and lemon zest on the chicken.  Lemon and garlic are two of my favorite flavors together, not most favorite though!  ;) 

2) It also included fennel in a medley of vegatables that were roasted with the chicken. 

I thought that maybe if the fennel was mixed in with other flavors and roasted until almost sweet I would sneak it by.  No such luck!  Just as we were finishing dinner, my husband announces that there is a flavor that he doesn't like.  He kindly asks "is it fennel?"  Busted! 

I really liked the dish.  It was a bed of zucchini, roma tomatoes, fennel, and thyme roasted with garlic lemon chicken.  I found the flavors to be subtle and comforting.