{"id":15848,"date":"2018-02-23T00:42:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15848"},"modified":"2018-02-23T00:42:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:42:46","slug":"grilled-chorizo-roasted-sweet-potato-sorrel-tardivo-thyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15848","title":{"rendered":"grilled chorizo; roasted sweet potato, sorrel; tardivo, thyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15852\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chorizo_sweet_potato_tardivo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was an amazing collaboration of ingredients, really surprising me when I had only expected a workaday dinner. I knew we would enjoy the very special chicory, even if it had come all the way from northern Italy, and of course the sweet potatoes as well. Adding some sorrel to the latter was a last minute decision, but it\u00a0turned out to be a very good one.\u00a0 Finally, I always forget how good this Amish farm&#8217;s spicy chorizo really is, and (almost) the last of a jar of a wonderful well-made sweet\/tart jelly was exactly what it needed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<span style=\"color: #000000;\">four 2-ounce links of a very good\u00a0<\/span><\/span>chorizo sausage from Millport Dairy Farm, pan grilled for a few minutes over a medium flame\u00a0until\u00a0heated through, served with a dollop of\u00a0a garlic oregano\u00a0jelly from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshireberries.com\/\">Berkshire Berries<\/a>\u00a0[note: I didn&#8217;t remove the collagen casings, because I had not been aware they were there until John told me the next day, when I showed him the photograph above, but neither the flavor nor the texture of the sausage was negatively effected)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>two\u00a0Japanese sweet potatoes from Samascott Orchards, unpeeled, but scrubbed thoroughly, halved and sliced into one half-inch rounds and crescents, tossed in a bowl with olive oil, sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper, 4 unpeeled Rocambole garlic cloves from Keith\u2019s Farm, and a bit of crushed golden\/orange dried habanada pepper, originally fresh from Norwich Meadows Farm last fall, spread onto a large well-seasoned Pampered Chef unglazed ceramic oven pan, roasted at 400\u00ba for about 20 or 25 minutes, garnished with red-vein sorrel from Two Guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<span style=\"color: #000000;\">one<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 medium head of a northern Italian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicchioditreviso.it\/en\/tardivo\/\">tardivo radicchio<\/a>\u00a0from Flatiron Eataly, prepared mostly using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveur.com\/article\/Recipes\/Baked-Radicchio-Tardivo-di-Treviso\">this simple recipe<\/a>, washing it under cold running water, the moisture shaken off, cut\u00a0in half lengthwise, and a V-cut made most of the way through the root end, allowing that part\u00a0to cook more rapidly, the halves arranged inside a small Pampered Chef unglazed ceramic oven pan cut side up, covered with thyme sprigs from Westside Market, seasoned generously with salt and pepper and drizzled with\u00a0a tablespoon of\u00a0olive oil, baked\u00a0inside\u00a0the\u00a0400\u00ba oven in which the sweet potatoes were cooking, for about 12 minutes,\u00a0turned over and cooked for\u00a0some 8 minutes more, turned a second time so the cut side is once again up, returned to the oven, this time for only a couple minutes or so, or until the stem ends were tender when pierced with a thin blunt metal pin (my all-purpose kitchen tester), removed from the oven [note: the tardivo can be served either hot or warm]<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>the wine was an Italian (Sardinia) red,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/cardedu-canonau-di-sardegna-caladu-2013\">Cardedu, Canonau di Sardegna &#8220;Caladu&#8221;, 2013<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/\">Flatiron Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>the music was the album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=151021\">&#8216;Scherzi Musicali&#8217;, with\u00a0<em>jokey<\/em> music by\u00a0Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Biber, and Johann Jakob Walther, Reinhard Goebel conducting Musica Antiqua Cologne<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an amazing collaboration of ingredients, really surprising me when I had only expected a workaday dinner. I knew we would enjoy the very special chicory, even if it had come all the way from northern Italy, and of course the sweet potatoes as well. Adding some sorrel to the latter was a last &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-15848","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\/15848","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=15848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}