{"id":10444,"date":"2016-11-15T02:45:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2016-11-15T02:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:45:46","slug":"steak-micro-radish-tomatoes-oregano-roasted-sunchokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=10444","title":{"rendered":"steak, micro radish; tomatoes, oregano; roasted sunchokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10446\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/steak_tomato_sunchokes.jpg\" alt=\"steak_tomato_sunchokes\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10482\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunchokes-1.jpg\" alt=\"sunchokes\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10454\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fresh_onions.jpg\" alt=\"fresh_onions\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I routinely\u00a0forget how delicious, and easy to prepare, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerusalem_artichoke\">sunchokes<\/a> are. \u00a0While my neglect of this wonderful native American vegetable may have something to do with a residual conservatism about\u00a0food sources,\u00a0<i>helianthus tuberosus <\/i>not<i>\u00a0<\/i>having any place in\u00a0my understanding of the European kitchen, the original inspiration for these meals, it may be that it was the sometime name, &#8216;Jerusalem artichoke&#8217;, because it had seemed bogus to me for so long, that has been\u00a0responsible for\u00a0my overlooking their unique pleasures.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one 18-ounce Delmonico steak from Millport Dairy Farm,\u00a0dried, pan-grilled to medium rare, divided into 2 pieces, drizzled on the plates with a squeeze of local lemon [sic!]\u00a0from Fantastic Gardens of Long Island and a little olive oil, finished with a sprinkling of purple micro radish from Windfall Farms<\/li>\n<li>a mix of\u00a0sun gold tomatoes from Stokes Farm and varicolored cherry tomatoes from Norwich Meadows Farm, slow-roasted with a generous amount of dried Italian oregano from Buon Italia, olive oil, and a large\u00a0garlic clove from\u00a0Stokes Farm, halved<\/li>\n<li>sunchokes (about 12 ounces), their small \u2018rootlings\u2019 removed, trimmed, scrubbed, sliced very thinly (1\/8 inch, but they probably didn\u2019t have to be that thin), tossed with barely a tablespoon of olive oil (I think the small amount is somewhat critical to ensuring maximum crispiness), sea salt, and freshly-ground pepper, spread in one layer onto 2 Pampered Chef unglazed ceramic pans (a single pan wasn\u2019t enough, since they had been cut so thinly and should show a lot of surface), sprinkled with thin slices of 2 small sliced [formerly green onions, or fresh white onions, seen in the picture above] from Berried Treasures, roasted at 425\u00ba for about 35 minutes, chopped habanada tossed on the tubers\u00a0near the end (they could be heated a little first), or until they were brown, tender, and crispy on the edges, then dusted with dried fennel pollen from Buon Italia, and shuffled around in the pans with a wooden spatula<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Napa) red,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/ken-deis-napa-valley-merlot-2015.htm\">Ken Deis Napa Valley Merlot 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=13604\">Beethoven&#8217;s &#8216;Fidelio&#8217;, Colin Davis conducting<\/a> the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Chorus, with Ben Heppner, Deborah Voigt, Matthias H\u00f6lle, G\u00fcnter von Kannen, Thomas Quasthoff, Michael Schade, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz,\u00a0Andreas Schulist, Wilfried Vorwold, <em>et al.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I routinely\u00a0forget how delicious, and easy to prepare, sunchokes are. \u00a0While my neglect of this wonderful native American vegetable may have something to do with a residual conservatism about\u00a0food sources,\u00a0helianthus tuberosus not\u00a0having any place in\u00a0my understanding of the European kitchen, the original inspiration for these meals, it may be that it was the sometime name, 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