{"id":16929,"date":"2018-05-06T22:40:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=16929"},"modified":"2018-05-06T22:40:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:40:44","slug":"breakfast-with-2-alliums-3-fennels-bacon-eggs-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=16929","title":{"rendered":"breakfast with 2 alliums, 3 fennels, bacon, eggs, tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16930\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/eggs_tomatoes_bacon_toast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mediterranean, host to so many Alliums and Fennels: what a blessed world.<\/p>\n<p>This breakfast was something of a hodgepodge. It was also more easily prepared than most described on this blog, because several of the extras were just sitting by, having already been prepared while I was assembling dinners in the last few days (to wit: the end of a batch of washed and dried lovage; saut\u00e9-softened spring garlic; and both the stems and fronds of some bronze fennel)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the ingredients were 4 slices of Flying Pigs smoked bacon;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicvalley.coop\/products\/butter\/pasture-butter\/\">Organic Valley \u2018Cultured Pasture Butter\u2019;<\/a>\u00a0Whole Foods Market house brand Portuguese olive oil; Backyard Farms Maine \u2018cocktail tomatoes\u2019, also from Whole Foods Market; chopped lovage from Two Guys from Woodbridge on the tomatoes; Americauna chicken eggs; sea salt; freshly-ground black pepper; spring garlic from John D. Madura Farm, partially-cooked earlier, tossed into the pan with the eggs; both finely-chopped bronze fennel stems and chopped fronds on the egg yolks;\u00a0wild Sicilian fennel pollen from Buon Italia, also on the yolks;\u00a0micro scallion fronds from Two guys as a garnish;\u00a0toasted whole wheat sourdough miche from\u00a0Bread Alone Bakery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>cook&#8217;s critique: I can&#8217;t be relied upon to deliver fried eggs with all of their yolks intact, and this time 2 of the 6 ran the moment I cracked them into the pan, so next time I may try an end run (look at me, using a sports idiom!), cracking them gently into a bowl and then slipping them into the pan)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>our Sunday music was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmrecords.com\/home\">ECM<\/a> New Series album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmrecords.com\/catalogue\/143038752274\/in-paradisum-music-of-victoria-and-palestrina-the-hilliard-ensemble\">&#8216;In Paradisum: Music of Victoria and Palestrina&#8217;<\/a>, performed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmrecords.com\/artists\/1435046142\/the-hilliard-ensemble\">The Hilliard Ensemble<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mediterranean, host to so many Alliums and Fennels: what a blessed world. This breakfast was something of a hodgepodge. It was also more easily prepared than most described on this blog, because several of the extras were just sitting by, having already been prepared while I was assembling dinners in the last few days &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-16929","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\/16929","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=16929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}