{"id":14315,"date":"2017-09-18T00:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=14315"},"modified":"2017-09-18T00:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:41:25","slug":"linguine-eggplant-tomato-melon-blackberries-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=14315","title":{"rendered":"linguine, eggplant, tomato; melon, blackberries, ice cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14319\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/linguine_eggplant_tomato.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was no plan, other than the\u00a0idea that some baby eggplant would play a\u00a0major role in this pasta. But then I\u00a0quickly learned that I had a smaller amount of the vegetable\u00a0than I had thought, so I looked around the kitchen for a supporting cast.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up with 2 kinds of tomatoes, 2 kinds of allium, and a bit of other stuff.\u00a0What resulted\u00a0was so delicious\u00a0I&#8217;d say that the mix had proved to\u00a0be inspired, except that my\u00a0choices were more of necessity than imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest surprise however was the way it appeared when it arrived on the table:\u00a0There were\u00a02 different versions.\u00a0 The first helping was loaded with pieces of eggplant and green tomato,\u00a0but we couldn&#8217;t locate the cherry\u00a0tomatoes inside\u00a0the low bowls (the other, thinner and lighter-colored tomato just about melted into the pasta); when I scooped out the second, smaller\u00a0serving from the pot in which everything had cooked,\u00a0there were\u00a0gold cherry tomatoes everywhere, but not a single section of eggplant could be seen. The small tomatoes had apparently slipped through the pasta, with an ease denied the eggplant, with its odd shapes.\u00a0It&#8217;s a mystery why\u00a0I\u00a0hadn&#8217;t noticed that when serving the pasta,\u00a0when I could have compensated for it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14323\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/baby_white_eggplants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one large clove of Rocambole garlic from Keith&#8217;s Farm heated with a tablespoon or\u00a0more of olive oil (more added as needed during the following steps) inside a large tin-lined high-sided pot until softened, followed by\u00a05 or\u00a06 baby white eggplants\u00a0from Berried Treasures, chopped into bite-size pieces, which were saut\u00e9ed until they had begun to caramelize before one scarlet or Japanese scallion, thickly-sliced, and finely-chopped pieces of\u00a0a small Calabrian medium hot cherry pepper from Alewife Farm were added to the pot and allowed to soften, followed by stirring in 10 or so halved ripe orange cherry tomatoes and one small thinly-sliced light green heirloom tomato, all from Berried Treasures Farm, the vegetables seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, and finally 8 ounces of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eataly.com\/us_en\/our-producers\/afeltra\/afeltra-100-italian-grain-linguine-17-6-oz\">Afeltra linguine from Eataly<\/a>\u00a0that had been cooked inside a large pot of salted water until barely\u00a0<em>al dente<\/em>, then<em>\u00a0<\/em>drained (reserving 1 cup of the cooking water), were added\u00a0to the\u00a0vegetables\u00a0and mixed in,\u00a0the reserved cooking water added as needed and stirred with the pasta, to emulsify the liquid, served in shallow bowls with a final drizzle of olive oil and sprinkled with Parmigiano-Reggiano Vache Rosse from Eataly<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Friuli) white,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/sku00951.html\">Ronchi di Cialla Ribolla Gialla 2015<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/\">Garnet Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a dessert.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14321\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Blackberries_ice_cream_melon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a scoop of some\u00a0terrific\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/riverineranch.com\/index.html\">Riverine Ranch<\/a>\u00a0Water Buffalo Sweet Cream Ice Cream [buffalo milk, organic farm eggs, pure cane sugar, organic coconut flour, and salt] dropped into the hollowed-out deseeded\u00a0cores of 2 horizontally-sliced portions of half of an Asian melon from Norwich Meadows Farm, some blackberries from Locust Grove Orchards scattered over both, and some of the berries, mashed with a little turbinado sugar and a teaspoon or so of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capriflavors.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=1&amp;products_id=1593&amp;zenid=0fa0a1fdceefabc7f9e173668e79b855\">Toschi Orzata Orgeat<\/a>\u00a0syrup, poured over the top<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the music was the album, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=2259627\">Bach &amp; Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos<\/a>&#8216;,\u00a0Sabine Weyer, piano, Olga Pak, violin (in the Mendelssohn, a Double Concerto),\u00a0with the Berlin Camerata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no plan, other than the\u00a0idea that some baby eggplant would play a\u00a0major role in this pasta. But then I\u00a0quickly learned that I had a smaller amount of the vegetable\u00a0than I had thought, so I looked around the kitchen for a supporting cast. I ended up with 2 kinds of tomatoes, 2 kinds of &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-14315","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\/14315","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=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}