{"id":20908,"date":"2019-02-02T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=20908"},"modified":"2019-02-02T07:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T07:06:11","slug":"mullusk-salad-mushroom-pasta-shallot-celery-olive-pinoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=20908","title":{"rendered":"mullusk salad, mushroom pasta, shallot, celery, olive, pinoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20944\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seafood_salad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a great meal, with a good balance of flavors, textures, shapes, and colors. It was far better than I had anticipated, since it was pretty much arranged at the last moment.<\/p>\n<p>It was also pretty carefree, since I had purchased the centerpieces of both courses already assembled.<\/p>\n<p>The seafood salad purchased from a fisher&#8217;s stand at the Greenmarket can be tweaked in many ways, although so far I&#8217;ve not been very imaginative in presenting it..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eight ounces of a squid and conch salad, with olive oil, parsley, red pepper, and lemon juice, from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood in the Union Square Greenmarket, made by Delores Karlin, the wife of Phil Karlin, the fisherman, drizzled with juice from an organic Chelsea Whole Foods Market lemon and a little sea salt, and freshly-ground black pepper, arranged in a bed of some very welcome local arugula (in January!) from Philipps Farms<\/li>\n<li>slices from a loaf of bread from a Philadelphia bakery new to the Union Square market, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lostbreadco.com\/our-bread\/\">Lost Bread Company<\/a>&#8216;s \u2018Seedy Grains\u2019 (wheat, spelt, rye, and barley organic bread flours; buckwheat; oats; flax sesame, sunflower, and pumpkin seeds; water, and salt)<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Sicily) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/SearchResultsSingle.aspx?p=1&amp;search=39068\">Centopassi &#8216;Terre Rosse di Giabbascio&#8217; Catarratto 2017<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/Default.aspx\">Astor Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20945\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mushroom_pasta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>..and this delicious mushroom-filled ravioli is one of the most useful bases for improvising a meal that&#8217;s both tasty and easily assembled with ingredients available in the middle of a particularly-greens-starved winter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ten ounces of Rana portobello mushroom-and-ricotta ravioli (filled rounds of thin pasta) from Eataly Flatiron, boiled\u00a0<em>al dente<\/em>\u00a0inside a large pot of well-salted water for 2 minutes, drained, slipped into a large high-sided vintage tin-lined copper pan in which\u00a0one &#8216;yellow shallot&#8217; from Norwich Meadows Farm, chopped sections of several small stalks of celery from Philipps Farms, and a pinch from a gorgeous dried hickory-smoked very hot Jamaican Scotch bonnet pepper from Eckerton Hill Farm\u00a0had been briefly saut\u00e9ed until the shallot and celery had softened a bit over a moderate flame in a tablespoon or so of olive oil, a bit of pasta water added along with the pasta and the mix stirred over a moderate to high flame until the liquid had emulsified, seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, a dozen or so pitted kalamata olives from Buon Italia stirred in, a few chopped celery leaves and a bit of chopped parsley from Philipps Farm, tossed in, the contents of the pot then placed in shallow bowls and finished with a drizzle of olive oil around the edges, a sprinkling of toasted pine nuts, and a garnish of\u00a0micro\u00a0red mustard from Two guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Piedmont\/Albi) red,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/SearchResultsSingle.aspx?search=20287\">Barbera d&#8217;Alba, Oddero 2015<\/a>, also from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/Default.aspx\">Astor Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the music throughout the meal was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christophertignor.bandcamp.com\/album\/along-a-vanishing-plane\">Christopher Tignor&#8217;s album, &#8216;Along a Vanishing Plane&#8217;<\/a>, heard through the musicians&#8217; online publishing platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bandcamp\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a great meal, with a good balance of flavors, textures, shapes, and colors. It was far better than I had anticipated, since it was pretty much arranged at the last moment. It was also pretty carefree, since I had purchased the centerpieces of both courses already assembled. The seafood salad purchased from a &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-20908","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\/20908","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=20908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}