{"id":21188,"date":"2019-02-19T07:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T07:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=21188"},"modified":"2019-02-19T07:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T07:10:59","slug":"steak-lemon-lovage-fingerlings-garlic-habanada-collards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=21188","title":{"rendered":"steak, lemon, lovage; fingerlings, garlic, habanada; collards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21194\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/culotte.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meat and potatoes. And greens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two incredibly delicious sirloin\u00a0cap steaks\u00a0(otherwise\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/the-unconsidered-cut-3\">called \u2018culotte\u2019 here, \u2018<em>coulotte<\/em>\u2019 in France, \u2018<em>picanha<\/em>\u2019 in Brazil<\/a>, or &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Picanha\">the part where the cow was poked by ranchers<\/a>&#8220;), from <a href=\"http:\/\/sunfedbeef.com\/\">Sun Fed Beef<\/a>\/Maple Avenue Farms in their stall at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grownyc.org\/greenmarket\/manhattan-union-square-m\">Union Square Greenmarket<\/a>, brought to room temperature, seasoned on all sides with sea salt and freshly-ground\u00a0black pepper, seared over a medium-high flame for less than a minute on the fat-covered side\u00a0[this time, inexplicably, each had <em>2<\/em> fat-covered sides] inside an oval enameled heavy cast iron pan, the open sides cooked for 3 or 4 minutes each, removed from the pan at the moment they had become perfectly medium-rare, arranged on 2 warm plates, drizzled with juice from a local lemon grown by Fantastic Gardens of New Jersey, sprinkled with chopped lovage from Two Guys from Woodbridge, a little olive oil poured over the top<\/li>\n<li>about a pound of red thumb fingerling potatoes from Norwich Meadows Farm, halved lengthwise, tossed with a little olive oil, sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper, a bit of crushed light-colored home-dried habanada pepper (originally purchased fresh from Norwich Meadows), 6 or 7 medium-size rocambole garlic cloves from Keith\u2019s Farm (unpeeled, to keep them from burning), the potatoes roasted cut-side down inside a 375\u00ba oven on a large very well-seasoned Pampered Chef ceramic pan for about 20 or 25 minutes, arranged on the plates and garnished with red micro chard from Two Guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<li>one bunch of collard greens from Lani\u2019s Farm, the stems removed, washed 3 times, drained (some of the water retained and held aside to be added, as necessary, while the greens cooked), chopped into smaller pieces, braised gently until softened\/wilted inside a large, antique copper pot\u00a0in which 2 halved cloves of &#8216;music&#8217; garlic\/aka &#8216;strong neck&#8217; garlic from Windfall Farms had been heated until they had softened, seasoned with salt and black pepper, finished with a small drizzle of olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a surprisingly light, but very sophisticated zinfandel, a California (Mendocino County) red,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.copakewineworks.com\/products\/les-lunes-venturi-vineyard-zinfandel-2015\">Les Lunes Venturi Vineyard Zinfandel 2015<\/a>, from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.copakewineworks.com\/\">Copake Wine Works<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was a 2011 recording of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=654204\">Wagner&#8217;s\u00a01862-1867 comic music drama, &#8216;Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg&#8217;,\u00a0Marek Janowski conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Chorus\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meat and potatoes. And greens. two incredibly delicious sirloin\u00a0cap steaks\u00a0(otherwise\u00a0called \u2018culotte\u2019 here, \u2018coulotte\u2019 in France, \u2018picanha\u2019 in Brazil, or &#8220;the part where the cow was poked by ranchers&#8220;), from Sun Fed Beef\/Maple Avenue Farms in their stall at the Union Square Greenmarket, brought to room temperature, seasoned on all sides with sea salt and freshly-ground\u00a0black &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-21188","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\/21188","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=21188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}