{"id":10107,"date":"2016-10-16T22:51:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=10107"},"modified":"2016-10-16T22:51:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:51:34","slug":"a-savory-breakfast-with-raisin-toast-and-a-sacred-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=10107","title":{"rendered":"a savory sunday breakfast, raisin toast, a sacred symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10108\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/breakfast_raisin_toast.jpg\" alt=\"breakfast_raisin_toast\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the luxury and pleasure of another Sunday breakfast like this one, I could almost be tempted to forgo making\u00a0any meal that does not\u00a0involve\u00a0eggs in one form or another. I won&#8217;t, if only because I wouldn&#8217;t want\u00a0dishes like this to ever become routine.<\/p>\n<p>But these &#8216;breakfast&#8217; forms are pretty easy to assemble, and they open themselves up to infinite variations; I&#8217;ve hardly even begun to\u00a0go there.<\/p>\n<p>This one was made non-routine, in an unanticipated way, when I picked up a neat-looking loaf of bread at Whole Foods a few days ago (I didn&#8217;t have the time to hunt further, as I normally would). \u00a0There was noting in its appearance behind the small cellophane window, or in the name on the label itself, that would have indicated it was a <em>raisin<\/em> bread.<\/p>\n<p>It was a raisin bread. I almost never buy raisin bread. It makes a difference if your bread has raisins.<\/p>\n<p>It did this time. It was actually a very interesting addition to what was already a pretty diverse company\u00a0of flavors in this breakfast.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eggs and thick bacon from Millport Dairy Farm; sliced Japanese red scallions from Norwich Meadows Farm; one small mild Grenada yellow seasoning pepper from Eckerton Hill Farm (flavor of a habanero, a fraction of the heat); some rich nonpareil\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/kerrygoldusa.com\/products?category=2\">Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter<\/a>\u2018; a mix of 5 chopped herbs remaining from <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2016\/10\/16\/pepper-garlic-chili-scallion-copa-herb-micro-basil-frittata\/\">last night&#8217;s meal<\/a> (parsley, julip mint, and lovage from Keith\u2019s Farm; marjoram and\u00a0rosemary from Stokes Farm); Maldon sea salt, freshly-ground \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chowhound.com\/post\/question-penzeys-black-peppercorns-786715\">India Special Extra Bold\u2019 Tellicherry peppercorns<\/a>; a Middle-Eastern-style seasoning blend,\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyshuk.com\/lekama\/\">L\u2019eKama<\/a>\u2018 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyshuk.com\/\">NY Shuk<\/a>; organic whole wheat\u00a0raisin bread from Whole Foods, toasted only lightly; and micro basil from Two Guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<li>the music, this being a Sunday, was &#8216;sacred&#8217; (nothing is sacred to us, but it&#8217;s a Sunday morning tradition here), one of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giovanni_Gabrieli\">Giovanni Gabrieli<\/a>&#8216;s early 17th-century Sacred Symphonies, the 50-minute-long,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccaclassics.com\/us\/cat\/4759113\"><em>Symphoniae Sacrae<\/em> II (1615)<\/a>.\u00a0An aside: I may be wrong, but I believe the world would not hear another &#8216;symphony&#8217; that long for almost 200 more years, or another <em>choral symphony<\/em>\u00a0before then either<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the luxury and pleasure of another Sunday breakfast like this one, I could almost be tempted to forgo making\u00a0any meal that does not\u00a0involve\u00a0eggs in one form or another. I won&#8217;t, if only because I wouldn&#8217;t want\u00a0dishes like this to ever become routine. But these &#8216;breakfast&#8217; forms are pretty easy to assemble, and they open &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meals-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}