Strawberries, Soured Cream, Strawberry Oil

We serve this dish in summer when both locally grown strawberries and flowering green fennel are in season. Every morning I pick the pollen tips from the masses of wild fennel plants that grow on the Bellarine Peninsula, where I live. This dessert is a favourite of my son, Kobe. It is very intense; last year when I took him and his grandmother Kaye to Attica for dinner, Kaye and I both chuckled as we watched him eat it, a mixture of pleasure and pain on his