{"id":15281,"date":"2018-01-11T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15281"},"modified":"2018-01-11T22:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:00:47","slug":"fluke-mushroom-herb-amaranth-paprika-roasted-parsnip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15281","title":{"rendered":"fluke, mushroom, herb; amaranth; paprika-roasted parsnip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15282\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fluke_mushrooms_parsnips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was definitely winter (the parsnips we enjoyed were purchased from a stand in the greenmarket during a snowstorm), so last night&#8217;s meal wasn&#8217;t going to look like something from last July.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15284\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/jams_and_snow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshireberries.com\/\">Berkshire Berries<\/a> table on the\u00a0afternoon\u00a0when I bought the parsnips)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But many of the same fish we enjoy in the summer are still around, or around again, even\u00a0when, because of the extreme cold,\u00a0our local fishers sometimes can&#8217;t get out of the harbor to\u00a0pull\u00a0them in. Yesterday\u00a0I did what I could to bring\u00a0summer and winter together a bit, with the help of a bridge between the\u00a0seasons\u00a0assembled from fresh mushrooms and micro greens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two 8-ounce fluke fillet from American Seafood Company, seasoned on both sides with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, saut\u00e9ed skin-side down for 3 minutes over a fairly brisk flame with butter and a little olive oil inside a large, thick oval tin-lined copper pan, then turned and the other side cooked for about the same length of time, removed to plates resting on top of the 1934 Magic Chef oven when done (also covered at least a little to keep warm until the sauce was completed),\u00a0a tablespoon or\u00a02 of butter added to the pan, and 4 ounces or so of oyster mushrooms from Bulich Mushroom Farm, cut into medium-size pieces, added and saut\u00e9ed, stirring, until lightly cooked, seasoned with salt\u00a0and pepper, stirred with a couple tablespoons of a mix of chopped parsley from\u00a0Westside Market on 7th Avenue\u00a0and lovage from Two Guys from Woodbridge, and a tablespoon or more of the juice of an organic lemon from Whole Foods Market, arranged on the plates along the length of the warm fillets and garnished on the side with\u00a0micro red amaranth, also from Two Guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15283\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/parsnips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>parsnips from Norwich Meadows Farm, scrubbed thoroughly, sliced, mostly into 1\/4-to-1\/2\u2033 discs, tossed with little more than a tablespoon of olive oil, sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper, a small piece of crushed dried gold\/orange habanada pepper,\u00a0a quarter\u00a0teaspoon or so of\u00a0Spanish paprika\u00a0<em>picante,<\/em>roasted inside a 425\u00ba oven for about 25 minutes, arranged on the plates on the other side of the line of micro amaranth<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Lodi) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/products\/scott-peterson-s-p--drummer-napa-chardonnay-2016\">Scott Peterson S.P. Drummer Napa Chardonnay 2016<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/full_site\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=10738\">Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov&#8217;s 1898 opera, &#8216;The Tsar&#8217;s Bride&#8217;<\/a>, with Gergiev and the Kirov Opera, with\u00a0Liubov Sokolov, Ludmila Kassianenko, Victor Vikhrov, Olga Markova-Mikhailenko, Olga Borodina, Sergei Alexashkin, Irina Loskutova, Nikolai Gassiev, Marina Shaguch, Genadij Bezzubenkov, Evgeny Akimov, Yuri Shkliar, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was definitely winter (the parsnips we enjoyed were purchased from a stand in the greenmarket during a snowstorm), so last night&#8217;s meal wasn&#8217;t going to look like something from last July. (the Berkshire Berries table on the\u00a0afternoon\u00a0when I bought the parsnips) &nbsp; But many of the same fish we enjoy in the summer are &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-15281","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\/15281","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=15281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}