{"id":1016,"date":"2010-08-12T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2010-08-12T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:04:15","slug":"goat-chops-tomato-grilled-eggplant-81110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"goat chops, tomato, grilled eggplant 8\/11\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goat_eggplant_tomato_before.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1019\" title=\"goat_eggplant_tomato_before\" src=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goat_eggplant_tomato_before.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goat_eggplant_tomato_before.jpg\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">goat chops, Kermit eggplants, plum tomato, everything ready for the grill pans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kermit_eggplant_face_down_grilling1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1021\" title=\"Kermit_eggplant_face_down_grilling\" src=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kermit_eggplant_face_down_grilling1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Kermit eggplants in grill pan, cut side down first (after a rinse, the tomato followed the Kermits)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goat_chops_pan_grilling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1022\" title=\"goat_chops_pan_grilling\" src=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goat_chops_pan_grilling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">goat chops, just after hitting the second grill pan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goat_eggplant_tomato_after.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1024\" title=\"goat_eggplant_tomato_after\" src=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goat_eggplant_tomato_after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goat_eggplant_tomato_after.jpg\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">the finished plate on the table<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just after assembling the materials on the counter lat night I realized that \u00a0this meal would be very easy and stress-free to prepare, and that there were going to be almost no issues involving the coordination of different dishes or their separate timing, so for the first time ever I chanced taking a few pictures throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not much to get excited about, but the meal was terrific (I do the tomato thing regularly throughout the second half of the summer, and they&#8217;re always a treat; I loved the taste and texture of the little round green eggplants, my first exposure to this variety; \u00a0and the chops turned out better than ever before), and the pictures do give some idea of what we both enjoyed last night, before, during and after the process.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>kid goat chops from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newfarm.rodaleinstitute.org\/features\/2005\/0905\/patchesofstar\/kimbleevans.shtml\">Patches of Star Dairy<\/a> in the Greenmarket, first marinated in oil, garlic, pepper, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juniper_berries\">juniper berries<\/a> and crushed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bay_leaf\">bay leaf<\/a>, then pan-grilled and finished with oil, lemon, and parsley, accompanied by \u00a0a halved, seasoned, and pan-grilled ripe plum tomato (picked up last weekend at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/the-meathook.com\/\">The Meat Hook<\/a> in Williamsburg), finished with Balsamic vinegar; \u00a0eight tiny green <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thai_eggplant\">Thai Kermit<\/a> eggplants (also called, I understand, &#8220;Garden Egg&#8221; and &#8220;Bitter Ball&#8221;) from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lanisfarm.blogspot.com\/\">Lani\u2019s Farm<\/a> in the Greenmarket, halved, cross-hatched, coated with a mixture of oil, chopped garlic, shredded fresh mint, then seasoned, pan-grilled, and finished with good oil; \u00a0and some sliced Rustic Italian bread from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amysbread.com\/chelsea.htm\">Amy\u2019s<\/a> in Chelsea Market<\/li>\n<li>wine: \u00a0Sicilian red, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/SearchResultsSingle.aspx?p=1&amp;search=19004&amp;searchtype=Contains\">Hauner Salina Rosso<\/a> 2008 Isole Eolie (<a id=\"ctl00_middleContent_lnkbGrape1\">Nerello Mascalese<\/a> and\u00a0<a id=\"ctl00_middleContent_lnkbGrape2\">Nero d&#8217;Avola grapes), from <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/chambersstwines.com\/\">Chamber Street Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>slices of an Asian melon called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.localharvest.org\/melon-seed-sun-jewe-C10445\">Sun Jewel<\/a>, from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwichmeadowsfarm.com\/\">Norwich Meadows Farms<\/a> in Norwich, New York, purchased at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/listings\/stores\/union-square-greenmarket\/\">Union Square Greenmarket<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>goat chops, Kermit eggplants, plum tomato, everything ready for the grill pans Kermit eggplants in grill pan, cut side down first (after a rinse, the tomato followed the Kermits) goat chops, just after hitting the second grill pan the finished plate on the table Just after assembling the materials on the counter lat night I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71,140,148,160,179,221,263,369],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meals-at-home","tag-chamber-street-wines","tag-goat-chops","tag-grilled-tomato","tag-hauner","tag-kermit-eggplant","tag-melon","tag-patches-of-star","tag-sun-jewel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}