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In many ways, this meal was almost the opposite of the one we enjoyed the day before<\/a>: I wrote about Tuesday’s dinner that there were no contrivances or adornments, and this time nothing but the micro green garnish was left on its own.<\/p>\n In fact last night I may have gone just a little too far with the embellishments (the fish in particular, looking on the plate like a stuffing, couldn’t fully display its own flavors), although we both had to agree that everything was really<\/em> delicious, and Barry said these may have been my best turn at eggplant ever. Yay Turkey<\/a>!<\/p>\n a combination of both a little roughly-chopped rocambole garlic and thin scallion, both from\u00a0Keith’s Farm,\u00a0heated until softened in a little Whole Foods Market Portuguese house olive oil and a bit of Organic Valley \u2018Cultured Pasture Butter\u2019 inside a large heavy antique\u00a0 oval copper pan over medium heat, the alliums removed and discarded (or saved for some use the next day), a little more oil and butter added if necessary, the flame raised to medium-high, and, once the pan was quite hot, four 4-ounce sea perch (aka redfish, or rose fish)<\/a> fillets from American Seafood Company that had been rinsed, dried with paper towels, and seasoned with sea salt and a little freshly-ground black pepper, added, seared, skin side down first, for about 3 minutes (the skin should be nicely golden and ideally fairly crisp by then), turned over and cooked for another minute or so, the fish removed and placed on 2 plates that had been kept warm, either in a warm oven or tented with aluminum foil, then 4 ounces of roughly-chopped blewit mushrooms<\/a>, foraged by Windfall Farms in Montgomery County, were introduced to the skillet and saut\u00e9ed until slightly undercooked, more oil added once along the way as necessary, one chopped habanada pepper from Norwich Meadows Farm added near the end of that time, the mushrooms finished by lowering the heat a bit and tossing in\u00a0short segments cut from 2 Berried Treasures Farm garlic scapes that had previously been blanched, and continuing to cook for roughly one minute, the allium and mushroom mixture divided between the warm plates, 2 perch fillets placed next to each \u2018bed\u2019, both fish and mushrooms finished with a generous squeeze of an organic Whole Foods Market lemon, lemon wedges placed at the side of the plates<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n a garnish of some flashy purple micro radish, also from Windfall Farms<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n five beautiful small orange Turkish eggplants from Lani’s Farm, cut horizontally into 3 slices, mixed with a little olive oil, one large finely-chopped Rocambole garlic clove from Keith\u2019s Farm, 6 or 8 pitted and halved Kalamata olives from Whole Foods Market, sea salt, and freshly-ground black pepper, pan-grilled, without the olives, on an enameled cast iron ribbed pan over a brisk flame, turning once or twice, rejoined by the olives once they were done, kept warm above a very low flame while the fish was prepared, sprinkled with chopped peppermint leaves from Keith’s Farm, arranged on the plates, and more mint added, finished with a drizzle of olive oil<\/p>\n<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blewits.jpg\")
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