{"id":14274,"date":"2017-09-15T00:29:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=14274"},"modified":"2017-09-15T00:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:29:56","slug":"grilled-lemonoregano-marinated-squid-fennel-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=14274","title":{"rendered":"grilled lemon\/oregano-marinated squid; fennel, tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14275\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/squid_fennel_tomatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>It was also very good for\u00a0anyone&#8217;s budget, regardless of how small: The squid was $6.95 per pound, and I brought home enough for both of us for $6.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t decide whether the seafood or the vegetable part of this meal was more delicious; they both were pretty awesome, so we called it a draw.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoy squid regardless of how it&#8217;s prepared. This time I decided to work it on top of the stove, mostly because I didn&#8217;t want\u00a0a hot oven to add to the discomfort of a warm, humid evening, even if it would be on for only a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0accompaniment\u00a0to the cephalopods\u00a0became something of a\u00a0salmagundi, because I didn&#8217;t have a sufficient amount of any one vegetable to serve alone.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0 started with a modest bulb of fennel (which cost about half what the squid had, and it came with stems for an easy <em>crudit\u00e9<\/em>, and fronds\u00a0for a garnish).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14276\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/fennel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cleaned Squid, bodies and tentacles, from Blue Moon Fish, marinaded for half an hour in a mixture of zest and juice from one organic Whole Foods Market lemon; sliced garlic from Keith&#8217;s Farm; olive oil; dried Sicilian oregano; part of a dried golden\/orange habanada; part of a\u00a0small Calabrian medium hot cherry pepper, chopped, from Alewife Farm;\u00a0salt, and pepper, drained, then pan grilled, turning once, arranged on the plates, drizzled with more lemon, finished with chopped parsley from S. &amp; S.O. Farm and chopped lovage from Keith&#8217;s Farm<\/li>\n<li>one fennel bulb, from Lucky Dog Organic Farm, cut as wedges on the radius of its core, saut\u00e9ed inside a large, high-sided tin-lined copper pan with a couple tablespoons of olive oil until beginning to color, then one thickly-sliced clove of Rocambole garlic from Keith&#8217;s Farm,\u00a0chopped pieces\u00a0of that same small Calabrian medium hot cherry pepper from Alewife Farm, and some dried Sicilian fennel seeds from Buon Italia added and stirred until the garlic had softened and the mix had become pungent, followed by\u00a0the addition of a\u00a0handful of halved ripe orange cherry tomatoes from Berried Treasures, which were stirred in and briefly heated before the pan was removed from the burner,\u00a0then\u00a0some of the more tender fennel fronds, chopped, also stirred in, the vegetables served on the plates with a sprinkling of more fennel fronds<\/li>\n<li>there were slices of &#8217;12 Grain\u00a0&amp; Seed bread&#8217; (organic wheat and whole wheat with 12 cracked grains and seeds) from the Bread Alone stand in the Union Square Greenmarket, to\u00a0ensure that none of the juices from the squid or the fennel dish would be\u00a0wasted<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Sicily), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/sku02477.html\">Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Bianco 2016<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/sku02477.html\">Garnet Wines &amp; Liquors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hilaryhahn.com\/discography\/mozart-vieuxtemps-violin-concertos\/\">Mozart&#8217;s Violin Concerto in A Major, K. 219, and Henri Vieuxtemps&#8217;Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 31, Hilary Hahn, Violin, with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, conducted by Paavo J\u00e4rvi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, really good. It was also very good for\u00a0anyone&#8217;s budget, regardless of how small: The squid was $6.95 per pound, and I brought home enough for both of us for $6. We couldn&#8217;t decide whether the seafood or the vegetable part of this meal was more delicious; they both were pretty awesome, so we called &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-14274","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\/14274","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=14274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}