{"id":11109,"date":"2017-01-08T01:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T01:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11109"},"modified":"2017-01-08T01:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T01:55:17","slug":"pollock-leek-lemon-sorrel-boiled-potato-grilled-radicchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11109","title":{"rendered":"pollock, leek, lemon, sorrel; boiled potato; grilled radicchio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11117\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pollock_potatoes_radicchio2.jpg\" alt=\"pollock_potatoes_radicchio2\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/>,<\/p>\n<p>It was a surprisingly\u00a0wonderful <em>tripling<\/em> (used in the sense of &#8216;pairing&#8217;, but with 3 elements instead of 2).<\/p>\n<p>The pollock had come\u00a0first, picked up earlier in the day at the Greenmarket. That evening I pared down the possibilities for a vegetable and selected the last of our\u00a0Campo Rosso radicchio. Then, because I was afraid that those two might make for a pretty light meal, I looked around in my [figurative] potato bin for a suitable starch.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out they played well together very well, the flavor of each informing that of the other two.<\/p>\n<p>The fish was a delicious as ever, and it remains a favorite of mine, and its lack of general popularity baffles me. The chicory I had was a particularly\u00a0delicious variety of a plant I&#8217;ve come to love more and more, and I may finally discovered the secret to to pan-grilling this vegetable\u00a0(a very hot surface).\u00a0Finally,\u00a0while the small potatoes I used (one of\u00a0 my favorite varieties) had started out looking a bit shriveled from age, I suspected that\u00a0would\u00a0mean they&#8217;d taste even better than usual (my suspicions were confirmed; the real surprise\u00a0was that the boiling process totally revived their youthful skins).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one 15-ounce pollock fillet from Pura Vida Seafood in the Union Square Greenmarket, rinsed, dried, seasoned with salt and pepper and placed in a buttered baking dish, spread with a mixture of some soft butter, zest from a local lemon from\u00a0Fantastic Gardens of Long Island, and the\u00a0scissored mostly-whiter part of one baby leek from Norwich Meadows Farm, baked 15 minutes at 350\u00ba, removed to the plates, spread with the cooking juices and sprinkled with a small number of salted capers which had earlier been rinsed, drained, and dried before they were briefly heated in a little olive oil, finished on the plates with a colorful micro sorrel from Two Gus from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<li>six Carola potatoes (yellow flesh, creamy) from Max Hatchery, boiled, drained, dried in the pan, halved, rolled in the clear pyrex pan, seasoned with Maldon salt and freshly-ground black pepper<\/li>\n<li>one <a href=\"http:\/\/radicchio variegato di Castelfranco from Campo Rosso Farm\"><em>radicchio variegato di Castelfranco<\/em>\u00a0from Campo Rosso Farm<\/a>, rinsed under running water, cut into quarters and patted dry with a paper towel to remove excess water, the surfaces of the cut sides coated lightly with olive oil by being placed and turned on a shallow plate lined with it, and, making sure a grill pan is quite hot, the wedges placed in it, cut side down\u00a0for 30 seconds, turned onto the other cut side\u00a0for another 30 seconds, and\u00a0finally the rounded, uncut side, then removed from the pan and drizzled with a dressing assembled\u00a0with\u00a0one salted anchovy, rinsed thoroughly and filleted, crushed in a small mortar, teaspoon of white wine vinegar and less than 2 tablespoons of olive oil added and stirred in, plus\u00a0a little fresh juice from the Fantastic Gardens lemon mentioned above, some chopped\u00a0parsley [and\/or another herb] stirred in just before serving<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Sonoma) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/scott-peterson-california-sauvignon-blanc-2015.htm\">Scott Peterson Rumpus California Sauvignon Blanc 2015<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/bis.se\/conductors\/otaka-tadaaki\/schnittke-symphonies-no-6-7\">Alfred Schnittke&#8217;s Sympnonies No. 7, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Tadaaki Otaka<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, It was a surprisingly\u00a0wonderful tripling (used in the sense of &#8216;pairing&#8217;, but with 3 elements instead of 2). The pollock had come\u00a0first, picked up earlier in the day at the Greenmarket. That evening I pared down the possibilities for a vegetable and selected the last of our\u00a0Campo Rosso radicchio. Then, because I was afraid &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-11109","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\/11109","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=11109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}