{"id":13322,"date":"2017-07-10T23:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T23:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=13322"},"modified":"2017-07-10T23:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T23:10:38","slug":"spicy-goat-sausage-osso-buco-sauce-beet-greens-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=13322","title":{"rendered":"spicy goat sausage, osso buco sauce; beet greens; potato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13325\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sausage_sauce_beet_potatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost half of this meal was composed of leftovers.<\/p>\n<p>I was already eager to try\u00a0the goat sausage I had recently picked up at our local farmer\/purveyor&#8217;s stall in the Greenmarket, and then\u00a0I remembered that just inside the refrigerator I already had a sauce that would probably be perfect\u00a0for the kind of richness they seemed to promise. Last night I confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>The beet greens, also a leftover, were a last-minute addition, and their sweetness was the perfect foil for the meat and the meat-derived sauce.<\/p>\n<p>The boiled potatoes of course were a natural.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>four spicy goat sausage links from Consider Bardwell Farm, pan-grilled then arranged on top of\u00a0a rich sauce\u00a0that remained from <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2017\/07\/06\/osso-buco-and-pole-beans-cheeses-raspberries-ice-cream\/\">an osso buco entr\u00e9e<\/a> we enjoyed last week<\/li>\n<li>some beet greens, also leftovers from <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2017\/07\/08\/spanish-mackerel-parsley-lemon-mushrooms-beet-greens\/\">a previous meal<\/a>, heated and drizzled with a little olive oil<\/li>\n<li>new potatoes\u00a0from Norwich Meadows Farm,\u00a0boiled in salted water, drained, dried in the pan, halved, rolled in butter, seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground Tellicherry pepper, tossed with chopped lovage from Keith&#8217;s Farm and chopped parsley\u00a0from Norwich Meadows Farm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a dessert, and, only by coincidence, that meant there was more goat.<\/p>\n<p>This may have been the first time I had ever prepared gooseberry anything, having always been afraid of their notorious tartness. I had bought them a week ago, and they look and taste the same as they did then, on the eve of the Fourth of July. That seems to say something about their sturdiness, and I already knew how wonderful they taste. I washed &#8216;ended&#8217; the\u00a0berries with a sharp kitchen shears, and boiled them with an amount of sugar less than I thought they were going to need, but which turned out to be perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I had in fact purchased 3 different kinds of berries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13330\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/3_berries.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>about a quarter of a pint of gooseberries from Wilklow Orchards, gently heated in a small high-sided pan with a few drops of fresh water and a few tablespoons of turbinado sugar until the berries had softened and the sugar dissolved into their juices, spooned over scoops (one for each serving) of\u00a0L\u0101 Loos \u2018Vanilla Snowflake\u2019 goat milk ice cream from Whole Foods Market that had themselves\u00a0been centered on the top of 2 slices a delicious &#8216;cream cheese pound cake&#8217; from Wilklow Orchards, the farm which had also been the source of the berries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13326\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/gooseberries_cake_ice_cream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have more sauce, and still more\u00a0gooseberries, so we&#8217;ll have\u00a0another meal or two in the near feature featuring the homely &#8216;great American leftover&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u00a0haven&#8217;t even started on the blueberries.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the wine was a California (Lodi) red,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/f-stephen-millier-black-label-old-vine-zinfandel-2015.htm?cid=USA\">F. Stephen Millier Black Label Old Vine Zinfandel Lodi 2015<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was the album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=27702\">&#8216;Legrenzi: Invenzioni E Stravaganze&#8217;, with Fabio Biondi conducting the ensemble Europa Galante<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of this meal was composed of leftovers. I was already eager to try\u00a0the goat sausage I had recently picked up at our local farmer\/purveyor&#8217;s stall in the Greenmarket, and then\u00a0I remembered that just inside the refrigerator I already had a sauce that would probably be perfect\u00a0for the kind of richness they seemed to &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-13322","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\/13322","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=13322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}