{"id":20259,"date":"2018-12-18T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=20259"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:13:14","slug":"breakfast-with-some-of-the-last-of-summer-mid-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=20259","title":{"rendered":"breakfast with some of the last of summer, mid-december"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20260\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/breakfast_habanada_tomato.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was going to write that these were the last of the fresh habanada peppers for the season, that when I saw that they had started to go pretty fast inside the refrigerator, I had decided to splurge at our breakfast on Sunday afternoon. And then today, on my very next trip back to the Union Square Greenmarket, I found a few more in the same stand where these had come from almost a full month before.<\/p>\n<p>The tomatoes too may not have been the last of the summer&#8217;s treasures: <em>Their<\/em> farmers told me they had in fact been growing inside a covered space even during the warmer months, but there can&#8217;t be many more out there except for those raised hydroponically..<\/p>\n<p>The eggs will be with us all winter, as will the bacon and the bread, but for the next few months I&#8217;ll have to work a little harder to keep these plates colorful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the meal, which was, as usual, more of a late lunch than a breakfast, at least by the clock, included very fresh eggs from pastured chickens and bacon from pastured pigs, both from Millport Dairy Farm; one organic red tomato from Toigo Orchards; local (regional)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicvalley.coop\/products\/butter\/pasture-butter\/\">Organic Valley \u2018Cultured Pasture Butter\u2019<\/a>\u00a0from Whole Foods Market; a small handful of fresh habanada peppers from Norwich Meadows Farm, minced; chopped fresh sorrel from Lani&#8217;s Farm on the eggs; green leek sections from\u00a0Hawthorne Valley Farm, chopped, and chopped lovage from Two Guys from Woodbridge on the tomatoes; Maldon salt; freshly-ground black pepper; and both fresh and lightly toasted slices of 2 different local breads (a\n<div>levain (organic wheat, whole wheat, and whole spelt flours) from Bread Alone and a\u00a0flax seed armadillo from Bobolink Dairy and Bakery<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">the music was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts-florissants.com\/main\/en_GB\/all-the-cds\/vespro-della-beata-vergine.html\">Claudio Monteverdi&#8217;s &#8216;Vespro Della Beata Vergine&#8217;. William Christie conducting the Choir and Orchestra of Les Arts Florissants and Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write that these were the last of the fresh habanada peppers for the season, that when I saw that they had started to go pretty fast inside the refrigerator, I had decided to splurge at our breakfast on Sunday afternoon. And then today, on my very next trip back to the &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-20259","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\/20259","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=20259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}