{"id":12315,"date":"2017-04-01T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12315"},"modified":"2017-04-01T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:24:07","slug":"grilled-mackerel-sicilian-caper-tomato-salsa-blue-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12315","title":{"rendered":"grilled mackerel, sicilian caper-tomato salsa; blue potato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12316\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mackerel_salsa_blue_potatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We love mackerel, and <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?s=mackerel\">I&#8217;ve cooked it often<\/a>. These were definitely the biggest fillets I&#8217;ve ever grilled; I was grateful that we weren&#8217;t eating off of the 8-inch <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creamware\">creamware<\/a>\u00a0plates I had used in the Providence house for years.<\/p>\n<p>These large fillets were perfectly fresh, made a great presentation, especially since I got them to the plates without their coming apart (even the skin remained\u00a0fully attached), and I managed to cook them\u00a0to a perfect doneness.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;d included the potato part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/recipes\/grilled-mackerel-sicilian-caper-tomato-salsa\">the\u00a0basic\u00a0recipe<\/a> I&#8217;ve been using for years. \u00a0It was only after I had decided to do so that I realized I didn&#8217;t have any variety\u00a0that would seem suitable for &#8216;twice-cooking&#8217;. I went with what I had, a dark blue sort-of-fingerling type. \u00a0They worked\u00a0perfectly, tasted great, and looked pretty\u00a0dramatic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12317\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blue_potatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two 8-ounce Spanish mackerel fillets from Pura Vida Seafood, washed, dried, brushed with olive oil, seasoned with salt and freshly-ground black pepper, pan grilled on both sides on top of a cast iron 2-burner plate over high heat for 7 minutes, skin side down first, removed and completed\u00a0with a salsa consisting of 7 quartered Backyard Farms Maine \u2018cocktail tomatoes\u2019 from Whole\u00a0Foods\u00a0tossed with olive oil, wild brined\u00a0capers which had been rinsed and drained, juice from a sweet local lemon\u00a0from Fantastic Gardens of Long Island, salt, and pepper, and sprinkled with a mix of chopped lime basil and oregano from Lani&#8217;s Farm<\/li>\n<li>ten ounces of small-ish &#8216;blue potatoes&#8217; (which are dark blue inside too, and stay so after cooking) from Norwich Meadows Farm, washed, scrubbed, boiled &#8211; unpeeled &#8211; until tender (about 15-20 minutes), drained, allowed to cool slightly before being cut into thirds, cooked, stirring occasionally, with a tablespoon of\u00a0olive oil inside an already warmed tin-lined copper skillet, the flame immediately turned to high heat, until lightly browned in spots (that is, if you can tell), I&#8217;d say for about\u00a05 minutes, the heat turned way down and one large clove of garlic from John D. Madura Farm added and cooked until crisp, or for about 3 more minutes, seasoned with Maldon sea salt and freshly-ground Tellicherry pepper<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Lodi) ros\u00e9,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/karen-birmingham-rose-lodi-2016.htm?cid=USA\">Karen Birmingham Rose Lodi 2016<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was a portion of the multi-CD album, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dust-digital.com\/morocco\/\">Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959<\/a>&#8216;; by way of explanation, immediately before dinner we had watched <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morocco_(film)\">&#8216;Morocco&#8217; the 1930 Josef von Sternberg classic, starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou<\/a>\u00a0(and it was even far better than I had expected!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love mackerel, and I&#8217;ve cooked it often. These were definitely the biggest fillets I&#8217;ve ever grilled; I was grateful that we weren&#8217;t eating off of the 8-inch creamware\u00a0plates I had used in the Providence house for years. These large fillets were perfectly fresh, made a great presentation, especially since I got them to the &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-12315","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\/12315","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=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}