{"id":15361,"date":"2018-01-17T00:54:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15361"},"modified":"2018-01-17T00:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:54:15","slug":"spaghetti-with-tuna-caper-peperoncino-sauce-parsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15361","title":{"rendered":"spaghetti with tuna-caper-peperoncino sauce, parsley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15363\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pasta_tuna_sauce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s dinner represented a return to Italy, or at least one interpretation of Italy. While there were no fish stalls in the Greenmarket on Monday, again because of the weekend&#8217;s bitter cold, but I did manage to put fish on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago I wrote this about this terrific dish, and except for the fact that I actually haven&#8217;t\u00a0served it since, for reasons I can&#8217;t explain even to myself, I stand by every word:<\/p>\n<p><em>This simple meal became a standard in our kitchen from the day I first tried it.\u00a0 It follows a classic and delicious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/10\/23\/dining\/the-minimalist-canned-tuna-with-a-bite.html\">Mark Bittman recipe<\/a> which can be put together entirely with ingredients normally always on hand, meaning it\u2019s perfect for those times when the cook has not had a chance to get to a market of any kind.\u00a0 Bittman describes the parsley \u2018garnish\u2019 as optional, and so the dish maintains my boast, but I can\u2019t imagine not including what is the most common herb in the kitchen, if at all possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one medium roughly-chopped sweet yellow onion from Norwich Meadows Farm, stirred in a couple tablespoons of olive oil over a medium-high flame inside a large enameled cast iron pot until softened, followed there by a teaspoon of crushed dried Sicilian pepperoncino from Buon Italia, a generous amount of freshly-ground black pepper, 2 tablespoons of salted Sicilian capers, rinsed, and the contents of one 14-ounce can of Simpson Brands domestic (San Marzano-type) plum tomatoes, the tomatoes themselves\u00a0first\u00a0roughly chopped, the mixture cooked, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes began to break up, the heat then lowered and the\u00a0pot kept on the flame for\u00a05\u00a0or 10 minutes more, then just before the pasta itself (8 ounces\u00a0of Setaro spaghetti from Buon Italia), boiled barely <em>al dente<\/em> was added, 6 ounces of Portuguese \u00c1s do Mar belly meat tuna in olive oil, already slightly flaked, slid into the\u00a0sauce and\u00a0mixed in, some reserved pasta water added and stirred in\u00a0to ensure the pasta was not really dry, arranged in 2 shallow bowls, garnished with chopped parsley from Westside Market<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Calabria) red,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/scala-ciro-rosso-superiore-2013\">Scala, Ciro Rosso Superiore, 2013<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/\">Flatiron Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=2260509\">Mozart&#8217;s 1772 &#8216;one-act dramatic serenade&#8217;, &#8216;Il sogno di scipione&#8217;,\u00a0Ian Page condicting with the Classical Opera Company<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s dinner represented a return to Italy, or at least one interpretation of Italy. While there were no fish stalls in the Greenmarket on Monday, again because of the weekend&#8217;s bitter cold, but I did manage to put fish on the table. Three years ago I wrote this about this terrific dish, and except &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-15361","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\/15361","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=15361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}