{"id":10390,"date":"2016-11-10T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=10390"},"modified":"2016-11-10T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:07:07","slug":"crab-cake-tomato-salsa-grilled-leek-habanada-arugula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=10390","title":{"rendered":"crab cake, tomato salsa; grilled leek, habanada, arugula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10393\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/crab_cake_leek_arugula.jpg\" alt=\"crab_cake_leek_arugula\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These were crab cakes with trimmings. The pictures\u00a0probably betray the fact that when I put this meal together color may not have been the least consideration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The image below is of the grilled leeks after some heated Habanada pepper had been scattered on top, and before they were divided onto the plates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10394\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/leeks_habanada.jpg\" alt=\"leeks_habanada\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had picked out the salsa tomatoes from this group one week earlier; one had become almost red by last night, the other had totally retained its greenness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10396\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tomatoes_Tamarack.jpg\" alt=\"tomatoes_tamarack\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two crab cakes from PE &amp; DD Seafood (the ingredients are crab, egg, flour, red &amp; green peppers, garlic, salt, pepper, breadcrumbs, mayonnaise, milk, celery, and parsley), seared\/heated in a\u00a0cast iron\u00a0pan, 2\u00a0to 3\u00a0minutes for\u00a0each side,\u00a0served on 2 plates on a bed of a salsa composed of 2 roughly-chopped heirloom tomatoes (one green and one deep green with some reddening) from Tamarack Hollow Farm, a pinch of turbinado sugar (infused over time with a vanilla bean), the sugar only because these were mid-November tomatoes, sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper, a bit of finely chopped medium-hot chocolate cherry pepper from Oak Grove Plantation, a little olive oil, some sauce left from <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2016\/10\/29\/pollock-allium-zest-habanada-sorrel-tomato-romanesco\/\">an earlier pollock dinner<\/a>, and\u00a0topped with a scattering of micro beets from Windfall Farms<\/li>\n<li>arugula from Keith\u2019s Organic Farm, dressed with Maldon\u00a0salt, freshly-ground black pepper, a very good olive oil,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frantoiogargiulo.com\/it\/shop\/olio-oliva-dop-sorrento\/olio-di-oliva-dop_penisola_sorrentina-_-2014-01-28-2014-01-28-detail.html\">Campania D.O.P. Penisola Sorrentina \u2018Syrenum\u2019<\/a>, and a drizzle of lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>three small leeks from\u00a0Willow Wisp Farm, split lengthwise, rolled in olive oil, salt, and pepper, pan-grilled, combined with one chopped heatless Habanada pepper from Norwich Meadows Farm which had been warmed in olive oil inside a small pan, and arranged on the plates, a little bronze micro fennel from Two Guys from Woodbridge scattered over the top<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Central Coast) ros\u00e9,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/keith-hock-central-coast-rose-2015.htm\">Keith Hock Central Coast Ros\u00e9 2015<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/\">Naked Wines <\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=170229\">Haydn&#8217;s &#8216;La Vera Costanza&#8217;, Antal Dor\u00e1ti conducting the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, with Jessye Norman, Helen Donath, Claes H. Ahnsj\u00f6, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, and others<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were crab cakes with trimmings. The pictures\u00a0probably betray the fact that when I put this meal together color may not have been the least consideration. &nbsp; The image below is of the grilled leeks after some heated Habanada pepper had been scattered on top, and before they were divided onto the plates. I had &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-10390","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\/10390","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=10390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}