{"id":11206,"date":"2017-01-15T02:49:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T02:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2017-01-15T02:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T02:49:05","slug":"roasted-monkfish-with-potatoes-olives-bay-leaves-cress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11206","title":{"rendered":"roasted monkfish with potatoes, olives, bay leaves; cress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11208\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/monkfish_potato_cress.jpg\" alt=\"monkfish_potato_cress\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It must be early apparent by now that we love this recipe, regardless of what fish I&#8217;ve\u00a0decided to include in it. It&#8217;s made many appearances on this blog, and last night it was\u00a0the turn of monkfish, the species designated in the New York Times\u00a0clipping which originally introduced me to it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great\u00a0formula, and, more wonderful still because of its versatility: Its author,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/05\/19\/dining\/the-minimalist-fish-on-a-bed-of-potatoes.html\">\u00a0Mark Bittman, who authored the recipe, says<\/a>, \u201cThe recipe can be finished with almost any firm fish fillet.\u201d. I\u2019ve made it with several myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11210\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/carola-_potatoes.jpg\" alt=\"carola _potatoes\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The night before\u00a0I had run out of my usual (modest) stock of potatoes, for almost the first time ever, but earlier on Friday I had picked up some more, 3 varieties, one one of which was the excellent creamy, yellow-fleshed Carola used in this meal.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe is on the site I linked to above. Last night I used the ingredients described below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two monkfish tails (about one pound) from Pura Vida Seafood, rinsed, halved, seasoned, roasted with three fourths of\u00a0a cup of black oil-cured olives from Buon Italia, pits removed, on top of a bed of one pound of scrubbed, unpeeled, thinly-sliced and seasoned Carola\u00a0potatoes from Mountain Sweet Berry Farm\u00a0which had just been roasted (in a very generous amount of olive oil) with about\u00a0a dozen dry Italian bay leaves, also from Buon Italia<\/li>\n<li>a spray of upland cress from Two Guys from Woodbridge, drizzled with a little olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a really excellent Spanish (Galician) white,\u00a0Bodegas La Val Albari\u00f1o Rias Baixas 2015, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelseawinevault.com\/\">Chelsea Wine Vault<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was a single magnificent piece,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/Name\/Saarbr%C3%BCcken-Conservatory-Chorus\/Ensemble\/90057-4\">Sylvano Bussotti, &#8216;The Rara Requiem&#8217;,\u00a0Gianpiero Taverna <\/a><br \/>\nconducting the Saar Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Saarbr\u00fccken Conservatory Chorus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be early apparent by now that we love this recipe, regardless of what fish I&#8217;ve\u00a0decided to include in it. It&#8217;s made many appearances on this blog, and last night it was\u00a0the turn of monkfish, the species designated in the New York Times\u00a0clipping which originally introduced me to it. It&#8217;s a great\u00a0formula, and, more &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-11206","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\/11206","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=11206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}