{"id":20709,"date":"2019-01-17T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=20709"},"modified":"2019-01-17T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:30:39","slug":"winter-picnic-smoked-fish-salad-toasts-sliced-duck-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=20709","title":{"rendered":"winter picnic: smoked fish salad toasts; sliced duck breast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20710\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/smoked_fish_toasts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20711\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cold_duck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Winter picnic.<\/p>\n<p>Fried duck breast part 2.<\/p>\n<p>I had bought more of Dolores Kalin&#8217;s wonderful smoked fish salad at the Greenmarket the day before, with no particular meal in mind at the time. Then, the next day, when I was looking around for something to fill out a menu in which slices of cold cooked duck breast would be featured, I drafted it into that meal almost immediately.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a composed smoked fish salad from P.E. &amp; D.D.Seafood, made by Dolores Karlin using various local white fish caught by Karl, her husband, spread very thickly on soft lightly-toasted slices of\u00a012 grain bread from Bread Alone, purchased a few days earlier, but also in the Union Square Greenmarket<\/li>\n<li>sprays of an upland cress from Two Guys from Woodbridge, dressed with Frankies 47 olive oil, Maldon salt, freshly-ground black pepper, and a squeeze of organic Chelsea Whole Foods Market lemon<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a Spanish (Rioja) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/SearchResultsSingle.aspx?p=1&amp;search=30101&amp;searchtype=Contains&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiApvbhBRDXARIsALnNoK156b1IQualPNCNBsO25yjG4P9nqQ1Hk89Ykg14AjgBVmc7YK3UeUMaAsqqEALw_wcB\">Real Rubio Blanco, Rioja 2017<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/Default.aspx\">Astor Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The small meat course was even more special than the fish, since we&#8217;ve never had &#8216;leftover&#8217; duck breast before, and its presentation could be almost intensely minimal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one half of a cooked\u00a0duck breast from Hudson River Duck Farm, that remained from <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2019\/01\/17\/fried-duck-breast-sweet-potato-frites-cabbage-cheeses\/\">the meal we had enjoyed the night before<\/a>, brought to room temperature, sliced very thinly and arranged on the plates without any sauce or seasonings<\/li>\n<li>dollops of a house apricot mustard from Dixon Farmstand<\/li>\n<li>some absolutely delicious (January!) arugula from Philips Farms, dressed with salt, black pepper, olive oil, and drops of a good Spanish Rioja wine vinegar<\/li>\n<li>slices of a\u00a0She Wolf Bakery miche<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a Spanish (Navarre) red, <a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/sf_store\/verasol-navarra-tinto-tempranillo-garnacha-2014\">Verasol, Navarra Tinto Tempranillo-Garnacha 2014<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/\">Flatiron Wines in Manhattan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was prepared to set out a small third course, local cheese and fruit, but at this point or appetites had been sated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the music throughout the meal was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=87884\">Rossini&#8217;s 1820 romantic opera, &#8216;Maometto Secondo&#8217;,\u00a0Claudio Scimone conducting the\u00a0Philharmonia Orchestra and the\u00a0Ambrosian Singers, with soloists\u00a0Margarita Zimmermann, June Anderson, Ernesto Palacio, Samuel Ramey, and Laurence Dale<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter picnic. Fried duck breast part 2. I had bought more of Dolores Kalin&#8217;s wonderful smoked fish salad at the Greenmarket the day before, with no particular meal in mind at the time. Then, the next day, when I was looking around for something to fill out a menu in which slices of cold cooked &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-20709","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\/20709","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=20709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}