{"id":15348,"date":"2018-01-16T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15348"},"modified":"2018-01-16T00:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:04:36","slug":"herb-basted-grilled-goat-rib-lemon-roasted-white-beet-kale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15348","title":{"rendered":"herb-basted grilled goat rib; lemon-roasted white beet; kale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15350\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/goat_ribs_kale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had only <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2011\/08\/05\/goat-ribs-green-beans-plum-tomatoes\/\">cooked goat ribs once before<\/a>. It was early August, and I wanted to avoid\u00a0turning on the oven, so I managed to devise a scheme that would allow be to cook them on top of the stove. They were delicious, and it was a very simple process, so I repeated\u00a0it last night.<\/p>\n<p>The ribs looked great on the plate, the\u00a0aroma was wonderful, and they were very tasty, but we were both disappointed that they were quite chewy\u00a0(the meat definitely did not &#8216;fall off the bone&#8217;).\u00a0I might have had more success had I kept them on the grill pan even longer than I did, but I don&#8217;t know for certain. Even allowing for the fact that goat is nowhere near as fatty as pork, or even veal or beef, I think I could do better next time if I approached the cooking differently.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one side of goat\/<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cabrito\">cabrito<\/a> riblets from Tony of Consider Bardwell Farm in the Union Square Greenmarket,\u00a0cut along the bone with a kitchen shears into\u00a04 pieces, dried on paper towels and\u00a0pan-grilled inside an enameled cast iron ribbed pan for a total of\u00a0at least 20\u00a0minutes, basting all along with\u00a02 long branches of rosemary, tied together\u00a0and repeatedly dipped into a mixture of oil, red Rioja wine vinegar, crushed dried dark habanada pepper (from fresh ones purchased\u00a0in the fall of 2016 from Norwich Meadows Farm), sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, replacing a very loose cover of tin foil between each sweep of the herb with its basting mixture, arranged on 2 plates, garnished with micro red amaranth from Two Guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<li>ten or 11 ounces of not-large white beets from Norwich Meadows Farm, trimmed, scrubbed, and cut into approximately 1-inch wedges, tossed in a bowl with 2 teaspoons of olive oil, more than 1 tablespoon of a mix of chopped herbs (fresh thyme\u00a0and winter savory\u00a0from Stokes Farm, sage from Keith&#8217;s Farm), more than half of a teaspoon of freshly-grated zest from a Whole Foods Market organic lemon, sea salt, and freshly-ground black pepper, arranged one flat side down on a cured unglazed medium Pampered Chef oven pan, placed in the\u00a0 lower third of an oven preheated to 450\u00b0F, roasted,\u00a0turning\u00a0once or twice, until tender and slightly browned, or 20 to 25 minutes, arranged on the plates and garnished with chopped lovage from Two Guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<li>the small amount of winter kale that remained from a large bunch from Hoeffner Farms we had enjoyed the night before, washed, drained, wilted\u00a0inside a\u00a0medium tin-lined antique copper\u00a0pot in\u00a0less than a tablespoon or so of olive oil in which 2\u00a0bruised and one halved clove of Rocambole garlic from Keith\u2019s Farm had first been allowed to sweat and begin to color, the greens seasoned with sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper, and arranged on the plates, a little more olive oil drizzled on top<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (Lodi, I believe) red,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/products\/f-stephen-millier-black-label-cabernet-sauvignon-2016\">F. Stephen Millier Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon California 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=146267\">Wagner&#8217;s magnificent late (1887-1882)\u00a0<em>B\u00fchnenweihfestspiel<\/em>, &#8216;Parsifal&#8217;<\/a>, a beautifully-engineered 1962 recording of a great performance, Hans Knappertsbusch\u00a0conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and the Bayreuth Festival Chorus, with soloists\u00a0Jess Thomas, Gustav Neidlinger, Niels Moller, Georg Paskuda, Gerhard Stolze, Dorothea Siebert, Irene Dalis, Martti Talvela, Gerd Nienstedt, Ursula Boese, Anja Silja, Gundula Janowitz, George London, Hans Hotter, and Sona Cervena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had only cooked goat ribs once before. It was early August, and I wanted to avoid\u00a0turning on the oven, so I managed to devise a scheme that would allow be to cook them on top of the stove. They were delicious, and it was a very simple process, so I repeated\u00a0it last night. The &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-15348","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\/15348","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=15348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}