{"id":13016,"date":"2017-06-14T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2017-06-14T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:01:34","slug":"duck-breast-rosemary-orange-cherry-tomatoes-snap-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=13016","title":{"rendered":"duck breast, rosemary; orange cherry tomatoes; snap peas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13017\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/duck_peas_tomatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each\u00a0of the elements of this simple meal is a part of the cuisine of Portugal or Galicia, with the possible exception of the sugar snap peas, although it&#8217;s unlikely they would be found there in the arrangements I made last night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13021\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/yellow_tomatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13028\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sugar_snap_peas-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one 13-ounce duck breast from Hudson Valley Duck Farm,\u00a0the\u00a0fatty side scored in tight cross hatching with\u00a0a very sharp knife, the entire breast then sprinkled top and bottom with a mixture of sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper,\u00a0and a little turbinado sugar (in our sugar bowl, infused over a very long time with a whole vanilla bean), left standing for about\u00a045 minutes before it was pan-fried inside a small oval enameled cast iron pan over medium heat in a tiny bit of olive oil for a total of 8 or 9 minutes, turning once, the fatty side down first,\u00a0draining the oil part of the way through [to be strained and used in cooking later, if desired], removed when medium rare\u00a0(cut into 2\u00a0portions to check that the center is of the right doneness, which means\u00a0no more than medium rare), left to sit for several minutes before finishing it with a drizzle of juice from an organic lemon from Whole Foods Market, chopped rosemary from Phillips Farm and a drizzle of olive oil<\/li>\n<li>ten small Ontario yellow &#8216;cherry&#8217; tomatoes from Whole Foods Market, heated, the flame now turned off, inside the pan in which the duck had been fried, while being rolled with a wooden spoon, seasoned with salt and pepper, arranged on the plates sprinkled with chopped baby fennel\u00a0from Lani&#8217;s Farm<\/li>\n<li>sugar snap peas\u00a0from Lani&#8217;s Farm, parboiled for about a minute and a half, drained, rolled inside a heavy tin-lined copper pan with\u00a0a little olive oil\u00a0in which\u00a0one small chopped green garlic head from Phillips Farm had been heated until fragrant, seasoned with Maldon sea salt and freshly-ground Tellicherry pepper, finished with chopped peppermint leaves from Lani&#8217;s Farm<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Sonoma) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/scott-peterson-rumpus-chaos-2015.htm?oldRegion=NY&amp;region=NY\">Scott Peterson Rumpus\u00a0Chaos California 2015<\/a>, from <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=489180\">Mozart&#8217;s Symphony No.\u00a039, Ren\u00e9\u00a0Jacobs conducting the Freiburger Barockorchester<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each\u00a0of the elements of this simple meal is a part of the cuisine of Portugal or Galicia, with the possible exception of the sugar snap peas, although it&#8217;s unlikely they would be found there in the arrangements I made last night. one 13-ounce duck breast from Hudson Valley Duck Farm,\u00a0the\u00a0fatty side scored in tight cross &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-13016","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\/13016","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=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}