{"id":17239,"date":"2018-05-22T21:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T21:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=17239"},"modified":"2018-05-22T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T21:50:48","slug":"lemon-pork-chop-with-mandarin-sage-tomatoes-broccolini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=17239","title":{"rendered":"lemon pork chop with mandarin sage; tomatoes; broccolini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17267\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/pork_chop_tomatoes_-broccolini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of sweets, but when the attribute shows up, unbidden, in your savory dinner, especially in every part of it, I can take the salute.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise this meal wasn&#8217;t much different than many others I&#8217;ve prepared using an extremely easy recipe for pork chops I&#8217;ve been working with for years [copied in <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2014\/09\/21\/pork-chops-seared-roasted-with-lemon-collards\/\">this 2014 food blog post<\/a>]. One thing that was new this time was a good closeup image of a very juicy chop, helping,\u00a0better than the pictures of these dinners I&#8217;ve published before, to explain why I&#8217;m so fond of the recipe (the word, &#8216;succulent&#8217; always comes to mind, one that&#8217;s not associated with most pork chops served, anywhere).<\/p>\n<p>In fact, 2 images.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17273\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/pork_chop_blownup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two thick, bone-in loin pork chops (approximately 10 ounces each) from Flying Pig Farms, dried thoroughly, seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, seared in a heavy enameled cast-iron pan, half of an organic Whole Foods Market lemon squeezed over them and left in the pan them while they roasted in a 400\u00ba oven for about 12 or 13 minutes total (flipped halfway through and the lemon squeezed over their surfaces once again), removed from the oven, sprinkled with chopped\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aziendailrosmarino.it\/negozio\/pianta-di-salvia-mandarino\/\">Salvia Mandarino<\/a>\u00a0(Eng. \u2018mandarin sage\u2019, or \u2018pineapple sage\u2019) from Stokes Farm, and the pan juices spooned over the top (there were enough to be transferred to a sauce boat which was brought to the table, along with a ladle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16535\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cocktail_tomatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>six halved Backyard Farms Maine \u2018cocktail tomatoes\u2019 from Whole Foods Market, seasoned with sea salt and freshly-grrund black pepper, gently heated, face down first, then turned, inside a small copper skillet, arranged close to the chops and sprinkled with chopped thyme leaves from Stokes Farm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17276\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/broccolini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Campo Rosso Farm&#8217;s last bundle of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broccolini\">broccolini<\/a> (a hybrid cross between broccoli and <em>Gai Lan<\/em>, aka Chinese broccoli, first created 25 years ago) in the Union Square Greenmarket that day,\u00a0washed and drained several times in fresh cold water, chopped roughly, saut\u00e9ed\/wilted over a low flame by gradually adding them to a large enameled cast iron pot in which 2 sliced stems of spring garlic from Joh D. Madura Farm had been softened in some olive oil over a <em>moderate<\/em> flame<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California (North Coast) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/products\/david-marchesi-north-coast-sauvignon-blanc-2017\">David Marchesi North Coast Sauvignon Blanc 2017<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/full_site\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naxos.com\/catalogue\/item.asp?item_code=S2010\">an album of music by Germaine Tailleferre, Bruno Maderna, and Franco Donatoni <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of sweets, but when the attribute shows up, unbidden, in your savory dinner, especially in every part of it, I can take the salute. Otherwise this meal wasn&#8217;t much different than many others I&#8217;ve prepared using an extremely easy recipe for pork chops I&#8217;ve been working with for years [copied in &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-17239","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\/17239","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=17239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}