{"id":13463,"date":"2017-07-20T01:28:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T01:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=13463"},"modified":"2017-07-20T01:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T01:28:36","slug":"whelks-as-antipasto-then-rye-trumpets-sauteed-cucumbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=13463","title":{"rendered":"whelks as antipasto; then rye trumpets, saut\u00e9ed cucumbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13465\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/whelk_salad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13466\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rye_trumpets_cucumbers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had no idea this meal would end up so well.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whelk\">whelks<\/a> were a big surprise. They had been an impulse purchase the day before, when I had picked up some finned seafood\u00a0for a dinner that night. They had already been cooked, making\u00a0it easy for me, as long as I could come up with a way to serve them. \u00a0After looking at a number of sites on line, I ended up I pretty much winging it, with the help of a well-stocked larder.<\/p>\n<p>Super, and the salad looked pretty nice too.<\/p>\n<p>I had decided early on that the main course would be a pasta. \u00a0Remembering that I had a\u00a0terrific local grain box of artisanal &#8216;trumpets&#8217;, it was easy to imagine them associating with some saut\u00e9ed early season cucumbers (2 kinds) that I had also purchased on Monday. At that point\u00a0my dinner\u00a0had become a thing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13467\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cucumbers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/>I<\/p>\n<p>And it was delicious.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>five ounces of cooked whelks from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood, sliced thinly and mixed with\u00a0some finely-sliced ramp bulbs from Berried Treasures Farm, minced garlic from\u00a0Norwich Meadows Farm, crushed dried p<em>epperoncino Calabresi secchi<\/em> from Buon Italia, olive oil, juice from an organic lemon from Whole Foods Market, a\u00a0bit of\u00a0Columela Rioja 30 Year Reserva sherry vinegar, chopped stems of\u00a0baby fennel bulbs from\u00a0Central Valley Farm,\u00a0chopped lovage from\u00a0Central Valley Farm, chopped parsley from Norwich Meadows Farm, all kinds of chopped herbs left over from the preparation of the Porgy the day before, sea salt, and Freshly-ground Tellicherry pepper, served on flat plates on top of leaves of a purple frizzy oak leaf lettuce from Norwich Meadows Farm topped with a drizzle of olive oil<\/li>\n<li>five\u00a0cucumbers, of 2 different kinds, from Norwich Meadows Farm (their names\u00a0still undetermined when I left the farmers&#8217; Union Square Market stand, but I may be able to fix that later, sliced about\u00a01\/2\u2033 thick, dried, saut\u00e9ed inside a\u00a0large enameled cast iron pot in\u00a0a little olive oil over a fairly high flame until they began\u00a0to color, and then joined by one whole red Calabrian pepper from Campo Rosso Farm and several chopped red onion scallions from John D. Madura Farms, the vegetables then seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground Tellicherry pepper before joined by half a pound of Sfoglini rye blend \u2018trumpets&#8217; (and some\u00a0of the reserved pasta water) which had been cooked seriously\u00a0<em>al dente<\/em>, the trumpets tossed with the cucumbers and onions and stirred over a low-to-moderate flame for a couple of minutes to blend the flavors and the ingredients, served finished with a drizzle of olive oil, some homemade breadcrumbs (dry crumbs of a\u00a0homemade rye bread) which had been heated with a little olive oil and a pinch of sea salt, the pasta finished in shallow bowls sprinkled with chopped garlic flowers from\u00a0Windfall Farms<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Campania) white,\u00a0Benito Ferrara Greco di Tufo 2014, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/\">Garnet Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=170232#review\">Haydn&#8217;s 1781 opera, &#8216;La fedelt\u00e0 premiata&#8217;, a late 1970s recording, Antal Dor\u00e1ti conducting the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra<\/a> in the first performance of the work in almost 200 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea this meal would end up so well. The whelks were a big surprise. They had been an impulse purchase the day before, when I had picked up some finned seafood\u00a0for a dinner that night. They had already been cooked, making\u00a0it easy for me, as long as I could come up with &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-13463","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\/13463","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=13463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}