{"id":12986,"date":"2017-05-24T05:41:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12986"},"modified":"2017-05-24T05:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:41:49","slug":"red-fife-zucca-pasta-scapes-pepperoncino-chioggia-beets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12986","title":{"rendered":"red fife zucca pasta, scapes, pepperoncino, chioggia beets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12987\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chioggia_beet_pasta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was just cleaning out the refrigerator to put together a meal before we leave for Portugal, and also trying to avoid wasting\u00a0anything,\u00a0and somehow we still managed to enjoy\u00a0a pretty good dish of pasta, also a pretty dish of pasta.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>six ounces of garlic scapes from Norwich Meadows Farm, saut\u00e9ed in\u00a0a large enameled cast iron pot with and a little\u00a0crushed dried Sicilian pepperoncino from Buon Italia before the addition of the roots from 2\u00a0bunches of chioggia beets which had been trimmed of all but a stump of their green stems, scrubbed, cut into wedges, parboiled until <em>almost<\/em>\u00a0softened, the beet roots pushed around inside the pot, then\u00a0joined by many of the roughly-chopped beet leaves themselves, stirring them into the mix until\u00a0they had wilted, finally\u00a07\u00a0ounces of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfoglini.com\/\">Sfoglini<\/a>\u00a0red fife blend zucca, cooked <em>al dente<\/em>, added with some of reserved pasta water and moved about over a medium flame\u00a0until the sauce had emulsified, the finished pasta arranged inside 2 shallow bowls and garnished with a bit of homemade breadcrumbs which had been browned in a little olive oil with a pinch of salt [note: with the second helping we enjoyed grated <em>Parmigiano-Reggiano Vache Rosse<\/em> from Eataly on top, which was as satisfactory a finish as the breadcrumbs]<\/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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=132025\">Mozart&#8217;s 1771 opera (the boy was but 14 at the time), \u00a0&#8216;Ascanio In Alba&#8217;, performed by Jed Wentz conducting\u00a0Musica ad Rhenum and the Coqu Vocal Ensemble<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just cleaning out the refrigerator to put together a meal before we leave for Portugal, and also trying to avoid wasting\u00a0anything,\u00a0and somehow we still managed to enjoy\u00a0a pretty good dish of pasta, also a pretty dish of pasta. six ounces of garlic scapes from Norwich Meadows Farm, saut\u00e9ed in\u00a0a large enameled cast iron &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-12986","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\/12986","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=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}