{"id":11346,"date":"2017-01-26T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11346"},"modified":"2017-01-26T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:49:00","slug":"penne-celeriac-alliums-speck-chives-parsley-parmesan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11346","title":{"rendered":"penne, celeriac, alliums, Speck, chives, parsley, Parmesan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11349\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/celeriac_penne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was to be one of those\u00a0intervals between nights\u00a0which featured meat or fish, and it was going to be either a frittata or a pasta. The decision\u00a0was made shortly after I began burrowing around in my vegetable inventory. There I found a tidy cache of celery root, and not much more.\u00a0Looking around on the internet, I soon realized that\u00a0a marriage of celeriac and pasta didn&#8217;t seem at all out of the question, especially with the right condiments, and\u00a0my kitchen can usually provide those.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodrepublic.com\/recipes\/penne-pasta-with-celery-root-sauce\/\">The recipe with which\u00a0inspired me<\/a> asked for ham, cut into small strips. I didn&#8217;t have ham, which would have been fairly thick, but I did have some very thinly-sliced Speck. I cut it only into segments, which was a mistake: I should have expected that they wouldn&#8217;t stay separated; it would have been better to chop the Speck very finely.<\/p>\n<p>Have I said often enough before now that\u00a0I love anything celery-ish?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11361\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/celeriac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one finely-chopped yellow onion from Tamarack Hollow Farm saut\u00e9ed for about 5 minutes in 4\u00a0tablespoons of melted butter inside an enameled cast iron pot, then set aside while cooking\u00a0a little more than a pound of cubed celery root, also from Tamarack Hollow Farm, in boiling salted water until very soft, or about 10 minutes, the celeriac drained and added to the pot with the onion and squashed down a bit, a few tablespoons of Trickling Springs local organic milk added and the whole gently warmed through, then mixed with\u00a08\u00a0ounces of Afeltra Pasta di Gragnano\u00a0penne rigate, from Eataly, cooked <em>al dente<\/em>, around half\u00a0of a cup of Parmigiano-Reggiano Vache Rosse from Eataly mixed in, finished with the chopped green section of a baby leek from Lucky Dog Organic Farm, some chopped parsley from Eataly and scissored chives from Two Guys from Woodbridge, with more cheese sprinkled\u00a0on the top of each serving once the pasta had been divided into 2 shallow bowls and garnished with some parsley and chive<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Lodi) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/poppy-fields-pinot-grigio-2016.htm\">Poppy Fields Pinot Grigio Lodi 2016<\/a>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/winemakers\/ernie-weir.htm\">Ernie Weir<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=57485\">Haydn&#8217;s 1773\u00a0short comic opera, &#8216;L&#8217;infeledt\u00e0 Delusa&#8217; (Deceit Outwitted), with Barbara Hendricks, Edith Mathis, Claes H. Ahnsj\u00f6, Aldo Baldin, and Michael Devlin, Antal Dor\u00e1ti conducting the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra<\/a>, the recording itself from the late 1970s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was to be one of those\u00a0intervals between nights\u00a0which featured meat or fish, and it was going to be either a frittata or a pasta. The decision\u00a0was made shortly after I began burrowing around in my vegetable inventory. There I found a tidy cache of celery root, and not much more.\u00a0Looking around on the internet, &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-11346","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\/11346","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=11346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}