{"id":15662,"date":"2018-02-04T22:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15662"},"modified":"2018-02-04T22:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T22:21:29","slug":"spaghetti-smoked-eel-garlic-chili-pangrattato-scallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15662","title":{"rendered":"spaghetti, smoked eel, garlic, chili, pangrattato, scallion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15664\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/spaghetti_smoked_eel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This wonderfully-satisfying pasta dish should be an absolute cinch to put together, once some good fresh smoked eel has been located, but I seem to be married to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gourmettraveller.com.au\/recipes\/recipe-search\/chefs-recipes\/2009\/5\/spaghettini-with-smoked-eel-garlic-chilli-and-pangrattato\/\">the original recipe<\/a> I had found a while back, even if I&#8217;ve modified it slightly since, and\u00a0I still have to pay attention to\u00a0its instructions and\u00a0a sequence of the steps that seems not quite intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I halved the recipe this time, meaning I decided deliberately not to have leftovers for another day<\/p>\n<p>Still, it really isn&#8217;t at all difficult, especially since I didn&#8217;t have to go out to\u00a0some cold shore in early February with my ancient 7-foot Rhode Island eel fork.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/eel_fork.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two large cloves of Rocambole garlic\u00a0Keith&#8217;s Farm, sliced thinly, heated in a vintage high-sided, heavy, tin-lined copper pot over a medium-high flame, along with one whole dried pepper\u00a0<em>Itria-Sirissi chili, peperoncino di Sardegna intero<\/em> from Buon Italia, until the garlic was\u00a0almost starting to color,\u00a011 ounces of smoked eel from P.E.&amp; D.D. Seafood in the Union Square Greenmarket, skinned, debonedand broken into small pieces, added and tossed until warmed through, half of some savory pangrattato* prepared only a little earlier mixed in and combined with it,\u00a0the cooked and drained pasta (8 ounces of Afeltra <em>100%\u00a0grano italiano <\/em>spaghetti,\u00a0produced in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gragnano#Pasta\">Gragnano<\/a>, from Eataly Flatiron), added to the pan, tossed with the eel and pangratto and stirred over low heat for a couple of minutes, just under a cup of the reserved pasta water gradually added while doing so, served in low bowls, where\u00a0the pasta was sprinkled with more pangrattato and finished with chopped Japanese scallions from Norwich Meadows Farm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">*For the preparation of the pangrattato about\u00a0a third of a cup of homemade breadcrumbs were added to about a\u00a0fourth\u00a0of a cup of\u00a0olive oil in which two thinly-sliced Keith&#8217;s Farm garlic cloves and\u00a02 large salted anchovies from Buon Italia, rinsed and filleted, had been heated for a short while, then stirred for 4 or 5 minutes, the mixture then drained\u00a0on paper toweling, bringing it back\u00a0to room temperature<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Marche) white,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/sku04527.html\">La Monacesca Verdicchio di Matelica 2013<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/\">Garnet Wines &amp; Liquors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=4611\">Mozart and Da Ponte&#8217;s\u00a01786 opera, &#8216;Le Nozze di Figaro&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0 John Eliot Gardiner<br \/>\nconducting the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir, with soloists Rodney Gilfry, Susan McCulloch, Carlos Feller, Bryn Terfel, Hillevi Martinpelto, Francis Egerton, Julian Clarkson, Constanze Backes, Lucinda Houghton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Sarah Connolly, and Alison Hagley<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wonderfully-satisfying pasta dish should be an absolute cinch to put together, once some good fresh smoked eel has been located, but I seem to be married to the original recipe I had found a while back, even if I&#8217;ve modified it slightly since, and\u00a0I still have to pay attention to\u00a0its instructions and\u00a0a sequence 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-15662","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\/15662","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=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}