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It was the eve of Christmas,\u00a0La Vigilia<\/em>, in southern Italy, and in Italian-American families,\u00a0Festa dei sette pesci<\/i><\/a>, but as we’re neither Italian nor Catholic, I thought we could get away with just one fish last night.<\/p>\n But it was a very special fish, and there was pasta too!<\/p>\n *The <\/em>pangrattato was prepared by adding\u00a0about\u00a0a third of a cup of homemade breadcrumbs to about a\u00a0fourth\u00a0of a cup of\u00a0olive oil in which more thinly-sliced\u00a0Rocambole garlic cloves and\u00a02\u00a0rinsed salted anchovies from Buon Italia had been heated for a short while, and, after being stirred for 4 or 5 minutes, the mixture was drained onto paper toweling, bringing it\u00a0to room temperature,\u00a0then placed inside a small bowl<\/em><\/p>\n It was the eve of Christmas,\u00a0La Vigilia, in southern Italy, and in Italian-American families,\u00a0Festa dei sette pesci, but as we’re neither Italian nor Catholic, I thought we could get away with just one fish last night. But it was a very special fish, and there was pasta too! one large cloves of Rocambole garlic from\u00a0Keith’s …<\/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-15039","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\/15039","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=15039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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![dark, home-dried heatless Habanada pepper<\/a>\u00a0(gathered fresh\u00a0from Norwich Meadows Farm last year), until the garlic was\u00a0almost starting to color, pieces of\u00a0half of a skinned and boned smoked local eel from P.E. & D.D. Seafood added and\u00a0stirred until warmed through, half of the amount of a savory pangrattato*, prepared earlier, mixed in and stirred to combine,\u00a0the cooked and drained pasta (8 ounces\u00a0of Setaro spaghetti from Buon Italia), added to the pan, tossed with the eel and pangrattato and stirred over low heat for a couple of minutes, adding more than\u00a0a cup of the reserved pasta water\u00a0while doing so to keep the mix moist, the dish served in low bowls, where it was sprinkled with more pangrattato and finished with\u00a0slices of several tiny scallions from Willow Wisp Farm<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n*The <\/em>pangrattato was prepared by adding\u00a0about\u00a0a third of a cup of homemade breadcrumbs to about a\u00a0fourth\u00a0of a cup of\u00a0olive oil in which more thinly-sliced\u00a0Rocambole garlic cloves and\u00a02\u00a0rinsed salted anchovies from Buon Italia had been heated for a short while, and, after being stirred for 4 or 5 minutes, the mixture was drained onto paper toweling, bringing it\u00a0to room temperature,\u00a0then placed inside a small bowl<\/em><\/p>\n\nthe wine was an Italian (Toscana) white,\u00a0Villa Antinori Bianco 2016<\/a><\/li>\nthe music was a recording of a beautiful performance of\u00a0Handel’s 1738-1739 oratorial, ‘Saul’,\u00a0with Rosemary Joshua, Emma Bell, Lawrence Zazzo, and Jeremy Ovenden,\u00a0among others,\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Jacobs directing Concerto Cologne\u00a0Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus<\/a>\u00a0[while it\u00a0was<\/em>\u00a0Christmas Eve, we thought we’d already listened to a lot of\u00a0New<\/em>\u00a0Testament\u00a0music this week, so we’e go for the old one for a change]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the eve of Christmas,\u00a0La Vigilia, in southern Italy, and in Italian-American families,\u00a0Festa dei sette pesci, but as we’re neither Italian nor Catholic, I thought we could get away with just one fish last night. But it was a very special fish, and there was pasta too! one large cloves of Rocambole garlic from\u00a0Keith’s …<\/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-15039","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\/15039","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=15039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/habanada_dark.jpg\"){kind=link}