{"id":21010,"date":"2019-02-05T02:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T02:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=21010"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T02:53:37","slug":"baked-pasta-lemon-pork-chop-micro-mustard-baby-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=21010","title":{"rendered":"baked pasta; lemon pork chop; micro mustard; baby greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21015\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/leftover_cabbage_pasta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This meal should have been especially easy: For the first course there was an entire, quite sturdy, previously-prepared baked pasta. That meant that the entr\u00e9e could be smaller and lighter than usual. Also, the roasted pork chop process was so familiar to me I could almost have done it blindfolded, that is, if I hadn&#8217;t absentmindedly turned off the oven as I removed the baked pasta.<\/p>\n<p>I only noticed my mistake halfway through the [should have been] 13 or 14-minute roasting time for the chops, but with no real harm done, I recovered and brought them safely to the table, with, in this case, the indispensable assistance in of an instant-read thermometer (my own timing having been totally corrupted by the blunder).<\/p>\n<p>The greens, meanwhile, waited patiently while I fumbled around the range and the oven.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>some of the rich whole grain pasta combined with cheeses and 2 kinds of cabbage, remaining from <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2019\/02\/04\/a-sturdy-pasta-baked-with-1-potato-2-cabbages-3-cheeses\/\">Saturday&#8217;s dinner<\/a>, heated in a 350\u00ba oven for 12 minutes<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California red,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/products\/sin-fronteras-el-mechon-red-blend-california-2017\">Sin Fronteras El Mechon California Red Blend 2017<\/a>, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/full_site\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The oven incident, described above, delayed the main course only slightly beyond what I had expected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21018\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pork_chop_greens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[this is a description of how it should have been] two thick 11-ounce blade pork chops from Flying Pigs Farm, rinsed, thoroughly dried, seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, seared quickly in a heavy oval enameled cast-iron pan, half of a large organic Whole Foods Market lemon squeezed over the\u00a0top\u00a0(after which the lemon was left in the pan between them, cut side down), the chops\u00a0placed\u00a0in a 400\u00ba oven for about 13\u00a0minutes altogether (flipped halfway through, the lemon squeezed over them once again and, after a bit of crushed dried habanada pepper had been sprinkled on top of the pork, placed again on the bottom of the pan), removed from the oven and arranged on 2 plates, the few juices that remained, with the addition of a bit of vermouth and briefly heated, poured over the top, the plate garnished with\u00a0micro\u00a0red mustard from Two guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<li>some of the contents of a bag of mixed baby greens from Lani&#8217;s Farm, wilted inside an antique medium-size high-sided copper pot in a little olive oil in which two halved garlic cloves from from John D. Madura Farms had been heated until softened, seasoned with salt and pepper [because of the delay in cooking the pork, they had reduced their volume somewhat, but they were still delicious]<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a Portuguese (Beira) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/SearchResultsSingle.aspx?p=1&amp;search=38180&amp;searchtype=Contains\">Quinta do Cardo White &#8216;Companhia das Quintas&#8217; 2016<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/Default.aspx\">Astor Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>the music throughout the meal was a magnificent performance and recording of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschegrammophon.com\/us\/cat\/4239592\">Tchaikovsky&#8217;s 1879 opera\/&#8217;lyrical scenes&#8217;,\u00a0&#8216;Eugen Onegin&#8217;, with a libretto largely worked by the composer, that follows Pushkin&#8217;s novel in verse, James Levine conducting the\u00a0Staatskapelle Dresden and Rundfunkchor Leipzig<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This meal should have been especially easy: For the first course there was an entire, quite sturdy, previously-prepared baked pasta. That meant that the entr\u00e9e could be smaller and lighter than usual. Also, the roasted pork chop process was so familiar to me I could almost have done it blindfolded, that is, if I hadn&#8217;t &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-21010","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\/21010","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=21010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}