{"id":14284,"date":"2017-09-16T01:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=14284"},"modified":"2017-09-16T01:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T01:30:26","slug":"wild-mushroom-braised-chicken-sauteed-peppers-savory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=14284","title":{"rendered":"wild mushroom-braised chicken; saut\u00e9ed peppers, savory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14290\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chicken_mushrooms_peppers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So it was just chicken, but it seemed to me it would be a very good chicken.\u00a0I also had the help of some wonderful foraged mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>It was very good chicken.<\/p>\n<p>And there was excellent wine.<\/p>\n<p>I had bought the wild mushrooms at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grownyc.org\/greenmarket\/manhattan-union-square-m\">Union Square Greenmarket<\/a>. I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to use them that night, but I hadn&#8217;t\u00a0thought about what I would cook them with the next day until after I had left the square and was approaching 23rd Street. I realized I didn&#8217;t have anything suitable at home,\u00a0but I was already some distance from the farmers&#8217; market, so I checked out\u00a0my local Flatiron district Eataly, where I found\u00a0they had product, new to me, that\u00a0it seemed a perfect candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The peppers were also pretty special.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14302\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Mars_peppers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two partially-boned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cascunfarm.com\/Cascun_Farm\/index.php\">Cascun Farm<\/a> chicken thighs (a total of one pound)\u00a0from Eataly, browned on both sides inside a heavy oval cast iron enameled pot (one with a secure cover) just large enough for the chicken in some olive oil, removed and set aside,\u00a0a little butter added and melted, 3 whole Rocambole garlic cloves from Keith&#8217;s Farm; one small red onion\u00a0from Norwich Meadows Farm,\u00a0halved and broken up a bit; and some crushed dried dark habanada pepper added to the pot and heated over a moderate flame until the alliums had softened and colored,\u00a0then nearly 4 ounces of\u00a0foraged Wine-cap\u00a0mushrooms [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stropharia_rugosoannulata\">Stropharia rugosoannulata<\/a>] from Windfall Farms, roughly chopped,\u00a0tossed in, stirred,\u00a0and allowed to soften, the chicken returned to the pot, about 1\/4 cup of a\u00a0proper white wine added (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vivino.com\/wineries\/aveleda\/wines\/vinho-verde-quinta-da-aveleda-2016\">Quinta da Aveleda Vinho Verde 2016<\/a>, which we have been enjoying as an aperitif) and brought to a\u00a0boil, the heat lowered to a steady simmer, the pot covered and the chicken and the other ingredients cooked until all\u00a0were tender, or about 40 minutes, served on a crusty slice of &#8217;12 Grain\u00a0&amp; Seed Bread&#8217; (organic wheat and whole wheat with 12 cracked grains and seeds) from Bread Alone, the chicken garnished with chopped lovage from Keith&#8217;s Farm [the recipe which inspired this, from &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/05\/11\/magazine\/mag-11eat-chicken.html?_r=0\">Chicken Parts, 12 Ways<\/a>&#8216;,\u00a0one suggests spreading the softened garlic onto the bread before placing the chicken and the rest of the sauce on top, but I forgot]<\/li>\n<li>some &#8216;Mars&#8217; (sweet, citrusy) French heirloom peppers from Campo Rosso Farm, cut once lengthwise, the seeds and\u00a0membranes removed, saut\u00e9ed over a high flame until slightly caramelized, one sliced Japanese scallion, a chopped section from\u00a0a small Calabrian medium hot cherry pepper from Alewife Farm, and a pinch of crushed dark dried\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?s=habanada+pepper\">habanada pepper<\/a>\u00a0added near the end, the mix tossed with sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper and sprinkled with some chopped summer savory\u00a0from Ryder Farm, served with a drizzle of olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a terrific French (Chinon) red, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.klwines.com\/p\/i?i=1137684\">Bernard Baudry &#8216;Les Gr\u00e9zeaux&#8217; Chinon 2011<\/a>, the gift of\u00a0some wonderful friends<\/li>\n<li>the music was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=8320\">Marc-Antoine Charpentier&#8217;s 1693 <em>trag\u00e9die mise en musique<\/em>,\u00a0&#8216;M\u00e9d\u00e9e&#8217;<\/a>, composed with a libretto by Corneille, in a performance\u00a0by William Christie and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=8320\">\u00a0<\/a>Les Arts Florissants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it was just chicken, but it seemed to me it would be a very good chicken.\u00a0I also had the help of some wonderful foraged mushrooms. It was very good chicken. And there was excellent wine. I had bought the wild mushrooms at the Union Square Greenmarket. I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to use &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-14284","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\/14284","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=14284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}