{"id":20090,"date":"2018-12-05T01:09:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=20090"},"modified":"2018-12-05T01:09:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T01:09:15","slug":"sunchoke-and-kale-fusilli-with-onion-celery-chili-wild-cress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=20090","title":{"rendered":"sunchoke and kale fusilli with onion, celery, chili, wild cress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20106\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/fusilli_sunchoke_kale-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our <em>most<\/em> local fish stand was missing from our <a href=\"http:\/\/downtoearthmarkets.com\/markets?region=Manhattan&amp;market=Chelsea+Farmers+Market\">Chelsea\u2019s Down to Earth Farmers Market <\/a>on Saturday (it&#8217;s only a couple hundred feet from our door). At that time of the afternoon, although I knew there would be 3 seafood stalls at the Union Square Greenmarket, I wasn&#8217;t excited about going there, especially since I didn&#8217;t really need any other fresh produce.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to put together a pasta.<\/p>\n<p>Just the day before I had bought a package of some beautiful, very hearty-looking artisanal fusilli at Norwich Meadows Farm, incorporating their own vegetables, and possibly made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfoglini.com\/\">Sfoglini<\/a>, although there I could find no identification of the maker. It seemed this would be the time to try it out. I knew I wouldn&#8217;t need &#8211; and didn&#8217;t want &#8211; to add much to the interesting 50\/50 combination of sunchoke and kale fusilli, but I did have some slightly special onions I also wanted to try out. The remaining few ingredients then more or less fell into place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>four or five thinly-sliced mild-flavored semi-flat Stuttgarter onions from Quarton Farm, saut\u00e9ed until quite soft in a couple tablespoons of olive oil inside a large antique vertical-sided copper pot, sliced stems of celery from from Neversink Organic Farm added halfway through, along with half of a dried crumbled red shishito pepper from Eckerton Hill Farm, and a fairly generous amount of roughly-chopped celery leaves near the end, then 8 ounces of a fusilli pasta from Norwich Meadows Farm, half of the pieces using sunchokes and half kale, cooked al dente and drained, tossed into the mixture, stirred with more than half of a cup of reserved pasta cooking water until the liquid had emulsified, the pasta seasoned with sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper, and arranged in shallow bowls, circled with\u00a0wild cress from Lani&#8217;s Farm, drizzled around the edges with olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calabrian_wine\">Calabria<\/a>) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/scala-ciro-bianco-2017\">Scala, Ciro Bianco, 2017<\/a>, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/\">Flatiron Wines\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was Mark-Anthony Turnage&#8217;s remarkable 69-minute 1993-1996 nine-movement suite for jazz trio and large ensemble, &#8216;Blood On The Floor&#8217;, titled after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_on_the_Floor_(Painting,_1986)\">the painting by Francis Bacon<\/a>, which the composer has asked be seen only as a starting point, similarly to its relation to the family tragedy which inspired it,\u00a0the news of the death of his younger brother Andy from a drug overdose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our most local fish stand was missing from our Chelsea\u2019s Down to Earth Farmers Market on Saturday (it&#8217;s only a couple hundred feet from our door). At that time of the afternoon, although I knew there would be 3 seafood stalls at the Union Square Greenmarket, I wasn&#8217;t excited about going there, especially since I &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":[],"class_list":["post-20090","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\/20090","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=20090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}