{"id":12503,"date":"2017-04-16T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12503"},"modified":"2017-04-16T20:08:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T20:08:17","slug":"late-breakfast-on-sunday-totally-worth-missing-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12503","title":{"rendered":"late breakfast, Easter Sunday: totally worth missing lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12508\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Brekfast_Easter-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We usually sleep very\u00a0late on Sunday, and since we almost invariably have some form of egg dish which is not quickly assembled, it&#8217;s often well into the afternoon\u00a0by the time we sit down.<\/p>\n<p>Today it was especially late (both the rising and the preparing, and thus\u00a0the eating as well), once again ensuring that there would be only 2\u00a0meals for us on the day of rest. As I finished\u00a0this particularly tasty breakfast just before 3, I couldn&#8217;t help telling\u00a0the one assembled guest: &#8220;totally worth missing lunch&#8221;. Fortunately Barry had grabbed a digestive biscuit and a\u00a0strong iced coffee even before I began cooking.<\/p>\n<p>There was a centerpiece, because of the holiday (one which had meant a great deal to me growing up, and now only means spring), a 19th-century blown glass life-size egg, nestled\u00a0inside an ancient (ca. 1800) miniature splint basket, both found in Rhode Island almost half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12511\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/egg_in_a_basket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the ingredients for this particular breakfast included 6 free-range eggs and 4 thick slices of bacon from Millport Dairy Farm, the eggs dusted with a little dried orange-gold <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?s=habanada+pepper\">habanada pepper<\/a>, Maldon salt, and freshly-ground Tellicherry pepper,\u00a0served on the 2 plates with a sprinkling of micro bronze fennel from Two Guys from Woodbridge; there were also 4 halved Backyard Farms Maine \u2018cocktail tomatoes\u2019 from Whole\u00a0Foods, heated in a little olive oil with a bit\u00a0of sliced scallion stems from\u00a0Norwich Meadows Farm, salt, and freshly-ground pepper, sprinkled with a few chopped leaves of\u00a0a basil plant from Whole Foods; and slices of a sturdy &#8216;Pane Mediterraneo&#8217; from Eataly (whole\u00a0wheat, rye flour; pumpkin, sesame, poppy, sunflower, flax seeds; millet and farro), which were barely heated in the old toaster<\/li>\n<li>the Sunday (&#8216;Easter Sunday&#8217; this time) music was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/Name\/Nina-Koufochristou\/Performer\/281505-2\">Carl Heinrich Graun&#8217;s early 18th-century (exact date unknown) &#8216;Easter Oratorio&#8217;, Michael Alexander Willens conducting the K\u00f6lner Akademie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We usually sleep very\u00a0late on Sunday, and since we almost invariably have some form of egg dish which is not quickly assembled, it&#8217;s often well into the afternoon\u00a0by the time we sit down. Today it was especially late (both the rising and the preparing, and thus\u00a0the eating as well), once again ensuring that there would &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-12503","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\/12503","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=12503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}