{"id":183,"date":"2009-10-29T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2009-10-29T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T05:48:08","slug":"salad-of-golden-cherry-tomatoes-tomatillos-and-lovage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"golden cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, lovage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-190\" href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.com\/2009\/10\/29\/salad-of-golden-cherry-tomatoes-tomatillos-and-lovage\/maxwell_farm_lovage-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"Maxwell_farm_lovage\" src=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Maxwell_farm_lovage2.jpg\" alt=\"Maxwell_farm_lovage\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-184\" href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.com\/2009\/10\/29\/salad-of-golden-cherry-tomatoes-tomatillos-and-lovage\/bill_maxwell_golden_cherry_tomatoes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184\" title=\"Bill_Maxwell_golden_cherry_tomatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Bill_Maxwell_golden_cherry_tomatoes.jpg\" alt=\"Bill_Maxwell_golden_cherry_tomatoes\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-187\" href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.com\/2009\/10\/29\/salad-of-golden-cherry-tomatoes-tomatillos-and-lovage\/maxwell_farm_tomatillos\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-187\" title=\"Maxwell_farm_tomatillos\" src=\"http:\/\/food2.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Maxwell_farm_tomatillos.jpg\" alt=\"Maxwell_farm_tomatillos\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently discovered that there really <em>is<\/em> life beyond salsa for the lowly tomatillo.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I found myself with some golden cherry tomatoes which really had to be made a part of a meal before it was too late.\u00a0 I happened to check out the crisper drawer in the refrigerator at just about the same time.\u00a0 Down at the bottom I found three tomatillos I had completely forgotten I had, having neglected to register them on my critical kitchen perishables list the day I had brought them home from Bill Maxwell&#8217;s stand at the Greenmarket several weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>[Note to all shoppers:\u00a0 I&#8217;m finding that Maxwell&#8217;s (Mondays at Union Square) can mean virtually one-stop shopping &#8211; and talking to good folks too.]<\/p>\n<p>I was about to throw the tomatillos in the garbage, but I decided to check them out first.\u00a0 I knew almost nothing about the vegetable, including how long they could be stored and <em>where<\/em> they should be stored.\u00a0 I cut a thin slice and discovered perfect bliss.\u00a0 It looked like jade and it tasted like candy.<\/p>\n<p>I had been trying to come up with for something which would complement grilled swordfish with a Salmoriglio sauce and some braised red kale.\u00a0 Maybe it was the thought of combining the two colors more than anything else that inspired the salad which I assembled from the tomatoes and the tomatillos, but it totally hit the mark. \u00a0 By chance I had some fresh lovage, also picked up at Maxwell&#8217;s stand, although more recently, and as I&#8217;ll put lovage on just about anything, I hardly had to think for a second before I added the leafy herb to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the real deal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thinly slice some ripe tomatillos and cut some ripe golden cherry tomatoes in half, combine with a liberal amount of chopped lovage, some good olive oil, a bit of fresh lemon juice, salt and, ideally, <em>pink<\/em> peppercorns (I love pink peppercorns and watch for any opportuity where they might shine), although black or white pepper will do just fine.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently discovered that there really is life beyond salsa for the lowly tomatillo. The other day I found myself with some golden cherry tomatoes which really had to be made a part of a meal before it was too late.\u00a0 I happened to check out the crisper drawer in the refrigerator at just about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meals-at-home","tag-golden-cherry-tomatoes-tomatillos-lovage-maxwells-farm-swordfish-salmoriglio-red-kale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}