Following bloom, green and bumpy seed pods form, turning brown once mature. The cold-hardy plant is one of the first spring ephemerals to emerge in April, often blooming just after the snow melts.

“It’s got that kind of anise seed flavor.” Then she adds lemon juice, salt, pepper, and her flavored mayonnaise, which she makes by mixing together plain mayonnaise with anchovy paste.

Cooked down in obscene amounts of butter, some star anise and those flavour bombs, fennel seeds! These carrots will turn your ordinary Christmas dinner into an 'extraordinary' dinner. Wow ...

Besides the sugar, the blackest of candies gets its flavor from either licorice root extract, or anise seed oil, or anise extract. Most licorice also contains molasses, corn syrup, and—no surprise to ...

Add soy sauce and one or two whole star anise pods for that signature aroma. Cook until vegetables are tender but crisp. Rice pudding gets a whole new dimension when it's infused with star anise.

It could even mean a washed-out field requiring replanting. Plant soybeans too late, though, and you could be sacrificing yield, since there are fewer days before the crop’s critical seed pod filling ...