{"id":18274,"date":"2018-08-02T18:27:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=18274"},"modified":"2018-08-02T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:27:05","slug":"penne-pepquinos-lemon-habanada-fenugreek-micro-basil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=18274","title":{"rendered":"penne, pepquinos, lemon, habanada, fenugreek, micro basil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18281\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/penne_Mex_gherkins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They may not be cucumbers, and they look like micro watermelon, but they sure taste like cucumbers, albeit slightly sour cucumbers, with an added, and very distinctive, &#8216;pop&#8217; when bitten into.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18304\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pepquinos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a simple sauced pasta which began with a couple tablespoons of olive oil inside a high-sided tin-lined copper pot gently heating more than half a pound of halved \u2018Mexican gherkins\u2019 (not actually cucumbers, but &#8216;pepquinos&#8217;, or \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melothria_scabra\"><em>Melothria scabra<\/em><\/a>\u2018)\u00a0along with a little crushed dried\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?s=habanada+pepper\">habanada pepper<\/a>, after which 8 ounces of an\u00a0<em>al dente<\/em>-cooked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyitalianproducts.us\/pasta\/pastificio-setaro\/7348-penne-rigatoni-pastificio-setaro-.html#.W2NG9hpKhsM\">Setaro Torre Annunziata penne rigatoni<\/a> were mixed in,\u00a0and also about half a cup of reserved pasta cooking water, the mix stirred in the pot until the liquid had emulsified, the zest and juice of a Whole Foods organic lemon squeezed added, the pasta seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground pepper, placed in 2 shallow bowls, topped with a pinch of fenugreek and garnished with purple micro basil and drizzled with a little olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Sicily) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/valle-dell-acate-grillo-zagr\">Valle dell&#8217;Acate, Grillo &#8220;Zagra&#8221;, 2017<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/\">Flatiron Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was the album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=142913\">&#8216;Night Of The Mayas &#8211; Music Of Silvestre Revueltas&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They may not be cucumbers, and they look like micro watermelon, but they sure taste like cucumbers, albeit slightly sour cucumbers, with an added, and very distinctive, &#8216;pop&#8217; when bitten into. a simple sauced pasta which began with a couple tablespoons of olive oil inside a high-sided tin-lined copper pot gently heating more than half &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-18274","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\/18274","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=18274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}