OVA SFONGIA
Mix eggs, milk and oil. Fry in a pan and serve topped with honey and a little pepper.
I can also make a tiropatinam, which uses the same ingredients but is more like a custard, if the family prefers something lighter.
HONEY MELONS
Cook diced melons in a pan together with spices and herbs until done. Sometimes silphium is added.
It has become more and more difficult to procure silphium. I have taken to using bits of our precious stores and combining them with leek. I've recently heard of asafoetida, which is very bitter-smelling but becomes quite similar to silphium when cooked.
The combination of fruit with more savory herbs is an interesting one that is often repeated in Apicius' book. I would personally never have thought to mix the two, but the result is often a quite tasty blend of salt complimenting the sweet. Many cooks have also taken to mixing garum and honey, myself included, to replicate the effect.
