{"id":12283,"date":"2017-03-30T17:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12283"},"modified":"2017-03-30T17:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:20:05","slug":"baked-cod-potatoes-habanada-micro-amaranth-mustards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12283","title":{"rendered":"baked cod, potatoes, habanada, micro amaranth; mustards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12284\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cod_potato_mustard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great, great stuff. As delicious as it looks.<\/p>\n<p>The cod was very fresh, and very sweet, as were the potatoes and the gorgeous micro amaranth.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have enough of any one kind of potato to produce <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?s=cod+potatoes\">a dish I&#8217;ve made many<\/a> times before, and each of the 2\u00a0varieties I ended up using\u00a0was considerably smaller than any I&#8217;d ever used. Also, I inadvertently used more olive oil to bake the potatoes\u00a0than I should have.<\/p>\n<p>So they weren&#8217;t big, and they didn&#8217;t turn out crispy, but they were really luscious.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have an image of the tiny fingerlings, but here are the small Carola, still at\u00a0the farmer&#8217;s stand, in a light rain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12299\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/small_Carola.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, because I think potatoes always\u00a0look so good, here are both kinds, tossed, with seasonings, inside the largest of a nest of vintage\u00a0Pyrex bowls,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12295\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/potatoes_in_bowl-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and inside a\u00a0glazed Terracotta\u00a0dish, on their way into the oven.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12296\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/potaotoes_in_oven_dish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one 17-ounce fillet of cod from Blue Moon Seafood Company in\u00a0the Union Square Greenmarket, prepared more or less from\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/10\/recipe-of-the-day-ligurian-fish-and-potatoes\/\">recipe<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/markbittman.com\/\">Mark Bittman<\/a>\u00a0which I originally came across 12 years ago: the cod washed and rinsed, placed on an ironstone platter on a bed of coarse sea salt, more added on top, until it was completely covered, set\u00a0aside\u00a0while preparing a\u00a0bed of potatoes for them by slicing to a thickness of less than 1\/4 inch, about 11 ounces of 2 kinds of potatoes, scrubbed but unpeeled, some small Carola potatoes from Lucky Dog Organic Farm and a slightly less amount of tiny fingerlings from Phillips Farm, tossing them in a large bowl with a tablespoon of olive oil, salt, pepper, and a large pinch of golden home-dried Habanada pepper\u00a0[acquired fresh last fall from Norwich Meadows Farm], arranging the potatoes, slightly overlapping, in a rectangular glazed ceramic oven dish, cooking them for 20 or\u00a025\u00a0minutes in a 400\u00ba oven, or until they were tender when pierced,\u00a0meanwhile, before the potatoes had fully cooked, the cod was thoroughly immersed in many changes of water for about 15 minutes in order to bring down the saltiness (incidentally the soaking process somehow gives the fish more solidity, which can be easily felt while handling it at this point),\u00a0divided in half, drained and dried before being placed\u00a0inside the pan on top of the potatoes, skin side down, drizzled\u00a0with a little olive oil, some\u00a0freshly-ground pepper scattered over\u00a0the top, returned to the oven\u00a0for\u00a08 to 12 minutes more (the time would depend on the\u00a0thickness of the cod), removed from the dish with a broad spatula, along with as much of the potatoes as can be brought along with each piece, everything arranged on two plates as intact as possible, followed by the remainder of the potatoes, splashy red micro amaranth from Windfall Farms scattered over the top<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The mustard greens were phenomenal, and gorgeous resting on the farmer&#8217;s stand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12292\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/frizzy_purple_mustard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>frizzy purple mustard greens from Bodhitree Farm,\u00a0wilted inside a large enameled cast iron pot in a little olive oil in which 2 cloves of \u00a0garlic from John D. Madura Farm, halved, had been allowed to sweat, seasoned with salt, pepper, and a very small amount of\u00a0crushed dried Sicilian <em>pepperoncino<\/em> from Buon Italia, finished on the plates with a drizzle of juice from a sweet local lemon (Fantastic Gardens of Long Island), and a bit of olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Lodi) white, <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/david-akiyoshi-reserve-chardonnay-2015.htm\">David Akiyoshi Reserve Chardonnay 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweb-international.com\/classrev\/2010\/Mar10\/Vivaldi_Farnace_op30471.htm\">Vivaldi\u2019s 1726 opera, \u2018Il Farnace\u2019, in an extraordinarily beautiful\u00a0performance led by Jordi Savall;<\/a>\u00a0it was at least our second hearing,\u00a0not counting <a href=\"http:\/\/jameswagner.com\/2004\/11\/group_team.html\">this one<\/a>, from over 12 years ago, in which Vivaldi&#8217;s music accompanies Muntean\/Rosenblum&#8217;s &#8216;It Is Never Facts That Tell&#8217;, the collaborative&#8217;s digital projection of a great world emptied and reduced to an enormous landfill,\u00a0achingly beautiful, even without the music which accompanies its hooded figures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great, great stuff. As delicious as it looks. The cod was very fresh, and very sweet, as were the potatoes and the gorgeous micro amaranth. I didn&#8217;t have enough of any one kind of potato to produce a dish I&#8217;ve made many times before, and each of the 2\u00a0varieties I ended up using\u00a0was considerably smaller &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-12283","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\/12283","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=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}