{"id":2021,"date":"2014-08-27T05:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2014-08-27T05:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:14:34","slug":"a-picnic-at-home-speck-eggplant-tomato-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"a picnic at home: speck, eggplant, tomato, cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picnic_speck_fairy_eggplant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2023\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picnic_speck_fairy_eggplant.jpg\" alt=\"picnic_speck_fairy_eggplant\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what we call a picnic; \u00a0it&#8217;s our\u00a0at-home hot weather meal of last resort (although because they&#8217;re such a pleasure, it&#8217;s sometimes very much a <em>first<\/em> resort, independent of an\u00a0evening&#8217;s temperature and humidity levels). \u00a0We sit at a wooden table next to an open window which looks out\u00a0onto the roof garden, but there are no bugs. \u00a0 It may take a while to set out the fixings, but there&#8217;s no heat involved (except in the unusual\u00a0case of last night&#8217;s meal, which involved\u00a0grilling tiny eggplants), and there&#8217;s very little washing up afterward. \u00a0There&#8217;s also no lugging of picnic hampers or\u00a0insulated wine bags.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>slices of Alto Adige speck from Eataly (only 2 ounces on each plate); a few halved Fairy Eggplants brushed with garlic and fresh marjoram (from Central Valley Farm) then pan-grilled; 2 sliced heirloom tomatoes from Berried Treasures, covered with torn New York rooftop basil from Gotham Greens at Whole Foods, and some good olive oil; parsley from Paffenrath Farms; a handful of red radishes from Phillips Farm; three cheeses, including a\u00a0soft sheep&#8217;s milk cheese,\u00a0Kinderhook Creek Mini, by Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, from Whole Foods; &#8216;\u00a0Manchester&#8217;, a goat&#8217;s milk cheese from Consider Bardwell; and, seen on the plate here,\u00a0Toma Point Reyes cow\u2019s milk cheese from Eataly; finally, slices of a fresh Italian rye from Eataly<\/li>\n<li>a Swiss white wine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop.appellationnyc.com\/r\/Items\/domaine-de-beudon-fendant-2005\">Domaine de Beudon, Fendant Valais 2005<\/a>, from Appellation wine &amp; Spirits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s what we call a picnic; \u00a0it&#8217;s our\u00a0at-home hot weather meal of last resort (although because they&#8217;re such a pleasure, it&#8217;s sometimes very much a first resort, independent of an\u00a0evening&#8217;s temperature and humidity levels). \u00a0We sit at a wooden table next to an open window which looks out\u00a0onto the roof garden, but there are no &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-2021","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\/2021","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=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}