{"id":11009,"date":"2016-12-31T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T21:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11009"},"modified":"2016-12-31T21:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T21:24:56","slug":"skate-wing-alliums-lemon-tarragon-parsley-winter-kale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11009","title":{"rendered":"skate wing, alliums, lemon, tarragon, parsley; winter kale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11010\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/skate_winterbor.jpg\" alt=\"skate_winterbor\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a familiar site on our table, sometimes with slight variations, but we never tire of this skate recipe, or of kale in any form (we eat both because we really like them, and not to be virtuous).<\/p>\n<p>Barry said it was the best skate\u00a0yet.<\/p>\n<p>The kale was, well,..kale, which is damn good indeed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11012\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Winerbor_kale-1.jpg\" alt=\"winerbor_kale\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one 12-ounce skate wing from Pura Vida Seafood, divided into 2 pieces, coated all over with a coarse polenta seasoned with salt and pepper, saut\u00e9ed in olive oil for 4\u00a0minutes or so on each side inside a heavy oval tin-lined copper\u00a0pan\u00a0(the only difficult part of this recipe is turning them over without breaking them up), removed, about 1 1\/2 tablespoons of butter, one\u00a0small leek\u00a0Norwich Meadows Farm, a part of one tiny \u2018red wing\u2019 onion from Keith\u2019s Farm,\u00a0and 2 small cloves of garlic from from Lucky Dog Organic Farm, all sliced or chopped, introduced into it\u00a0and stirred over a now-lowered flame, followed by the addition of a little more butter, the juice from half of a very sweet organic lemon from Whole Food Market, some chopped tarragon from Whole Foods Market, a tiny amount of almost-dry finely-chopped winter savory from Stokes Farm, and a bit of chopped parsley\u00a0from Alex&#8217;s Tomato Farm, Carlisle, NY, at Chelsea&#8217;s Down to Earth Farmers Market,\u00a0stirring for a bit to blend everything, the sauce divided over the fish which had been placed onto the\u00a0plates<\/li>\n<li>a couple handfuls of Winterbor kale from Lucky Dog Organic Farm\u00a0[winter kales, sturdier than their\u00a0older cousins, tend to not wilt down as much when saut\u00e9ed, an attractive quality for the frugal cook, during a season when the farmers have justly to ask higher prices for this wonderful green; also,\u00a0light frosts only make the leaves of this hybrid taste even sweeter, a treat for the diner],\u00a0saut\u00e9ed, until partially wilted, in olive oil in which one bruised and halved garlic clove, also from Lucky Dog,\u00a0had first been allowed to sweat and only\u00a0begin to brown, then seasoned with salt, pepper, and a little more olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Napa Valley) white,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dacapo-records.dk\/en\/recording-per-norgard--libra.aspx\">Matt Iaconis Chardonnay Napa Valley 2015<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2002\/may\/24\/shopping.artsfeatures1\">Helmut\u00a0Lachenmann, &#8216;Das M\u00e4dchen mit den Schwefelh\u00f6lzern&#8217;<\/a> (The Little Match Girl), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kairos-music.com\/cds\/0012282kai\">performance by the Staatsoper Stuttgart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a familiar site on our table, sometimes with slight variations, but we never tire of this skate recipe, or of kale in any form (we eat both because we really like them, and not to be virtuous). Barry said it was the best skate\u00a0yet. The kale was, well,..kale, which is damn good indeed. &nbsp; &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-11009","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\/11009","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=11009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}