{"id":2063,"date":"2014-09-03T05:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T05:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2014-09-03T05:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T05:25:16","slug":"linguine-with-zucchini-herbs-lemon-pignoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"linguine with zucchini, herbs, lemon, pignoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/linguine_zucchini_herbs_pignoli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2065\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/linguine_zucchini_herbs_pignoli.jpg\" alt=\"linguine_zucchini_herbs_pignoli\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As with many of the other meals described on this blog, this one didn&#8217;t begin and end with the course described and pictured. \u00a0For several days I had watched with both anticipation and concern as two\u00a0beautiful heirloom tomatoes, one red,\u00a0the other\u00a0green, ripened on the breakfast room windowsill. With\u00a0a Caprese salad in mind,\u00a0I had picked up some fresh mozzarella Monday\u00a0afternoon at Eataly on my way back from the Greenmarket. \u00a0It would\u00a0become part of\u00a0an antipasto\u00a0before a bowl of pasta which I imagined would somehow involve some small summer squash I had gotten at the Greenmarket that same\u00a0day. \u00a0I dressed\u00a0the tomato and mozzarella\u00a0with olive oil, salt, red pepper flakes, and torn basil, and served it with slices of sturdy &#8216;Rustico Classico&#8217;, also\u00a0from Eataly.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0pasta fixings were almost entirely improvised, with a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, the idea being to enhance and not disguise the squash. \u00a0Later, while we were finishing the meal I realized that\u00a0while\u00a0the courses bracketing it included dairy products, the pasta dish itself was genuinely vegan. . \u00a0It was not a conscious plan, but it happens here sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>The linguine\u00a0course was followed by a generous compote of peaches (hey, peaches are Italian too!) which I had also been watching as they ripened (contrary to my expectations and intentions, all at the same time), mixed with drops of Orgeat sirup, and topped with a dollop of good vanilla gelato.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Afeltra linguine with a sauce of slightly-caramelized zucchini and yellow summer squash from Berried Treasures and half a dozen different fresh herbs from various farmers in the Greenmarket, lemon zest, and lemon juice, tossed with some toasted pine nuts<\/li>\n<li>a delightful northern Italian white, a spritzy Piedmont from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kermitlynch.com\/files\/TINTERO.pdf\">Cantina Elvio Tintero, Vino Bianca Secco Grangia, Kermit Lynch<\/a> (50% Favorita,\u00a025% Moscato,\u00a020% Arneis,\u00a05% Chardonnay)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with many of the other meals described on this blog, this one didn&#8217;t begin and end with the course described and pictured. \u00a0For several days I had watched with both anticipation and concern as two\u00a0beautiful heirloom tomatoes, one red,\u00a0the other\u00a0green, ripened on the breakfast room windowsill. With\u00a0a Caprese salad in mind,\u00a0I had picked up &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-2063","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\/2063","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=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}