{"id":23256,"date":"2019-06-26T06:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=23256"},"modified":"2019-06-26T06:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:21:25","slug":"bluefish-greek-style-this-time-with-feta-red-new-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=23256","title":{"rendered":"bluefish &#8216;greek style&#8217; (this time with feta); red new potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23288\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/better_bluefish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a phenomenal dish.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was a great recipe, really very easy to put together (if you have most of the suggested ingredients), and because it welcomes variations and improvisations. This time I included feta cheese for the first time, which wasn&#8217;t really an improvisation, since it&#8217;s suggested in the original, very sketchy recipe (I had just never had some around when I was assembling this entr\u00e9e before).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23284\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/bluefish_before_oven.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course it meant the preparation would be even more Greek than before, so we looked around for a Greek wine and found something that would have been a perfect pairing whatever its heritage.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bluefish\">bluefish<\/a> is a magnificent prize, even if not fully appreciated everywhere, even today (it still remains one of the best bargains available at the market). I suspect it&#8217;s because most people don&#8217;t know how to cook it to take advantage if its almost singular virtues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23283\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also noting here, for the record, that boiled potatoes are not unknown in Greece.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one 17-ounce beautiful, very fresh bluefish fillet from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood Company in the Union Square Greenmarket,\u00a0rinsed, rubbed with olive oil and a little Columela Rioja 30 Year\u00a0<em>Reserva<\/em>\u00a0sherry vinegar, seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, placed inside a vintage 13\u2033 tin-lined low-sided copper pan, sprinkled liberally with a very pungent dried Sicilian oregano from Buon Italia and a bit of crushed dried <em>Calabresi peperoncino\u00a0secchia<\/em> from Buon Italia in the Chelsea Market, covered with thin slices of one small-to-medium red onion from Quarton Farm, halved\u00a0very ripe grape tomatoes from Alex\u2019s Tomato Farm in the Saturday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/downtoearthmarkets.com\/markets?region=Manhattan&amp;market=Chelsea+Farmers+Market\">Chelsea\u2019s Down to Earth Farmers Market\u00a0<\/a>a block west of us, some chopped fresh oregano from Phillips Farms, 8 or 9 pitted Kalamata olives from Flatiron Eataly, a few ounces of feta cheese from Lynnhaven Dairy Goat Farm in the Union Square Greenmarket, crumbled,\u00a0and 6 very thin slices of a Whole Foods Market organic lemon, the pan placed inside a 425\u00ba oven and baked for 15 minutes, the fillets arranged on the plates and garnished with roughly chopped bronze fennel from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceonryderfarm.org\/\">Space on Ryder Farm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>one pound of red Adirondack new potatoes, from Norwich Meadows Farm, boiled with a generous amount of salt until barely cooked through, drained, halved, dried while still in the still-warm vintage medium size Corning Pyrex Flameware blue-glass pot in which they had cooked, rolled around inside the pot in a little more than a tablespoon or so of Whole Foods Market house Portuguese olive oil, sprinkled with salt and pepper, garnished with onion blossoms from Norwich Meadows Farm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23286\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tatsis_Xinomavro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the wine was a quite unusual Greek (Macedonia) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/domaine-tatsis-xinomavro-white-xiropotamos-2013\">Domaine Tatsis, Xinomavro White &#8216;Xiropotamos&#8217;, 2015<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron-wines.com\/\">Flatiron Wines<\/a>,\u00a0[&#8220;Less than 50 cases are made of this killer biodynamic white each year. It\u2019s made from the free-run juice of Xinomavro (a red variety similar to Nebbiolo) before the rest of the grapes are made into a rose.&#8221; &#8211; seller&#8217;s notes]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23263\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Handel-amadigi-di-gaula.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the music was glorious, if not Greek, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alayreespanol.com\/en\/amadigi-di-gaula-hwv-11.html\">a stunning 2006 recording of Handel&#8217;s 1715 &#8216;magic opera&#8217;, &#8216;Amadigi di Gaula&#8217;, performed by\u00a0Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol, conducted by\u00a0Eduardo L\u00f3pez Banzo\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a phenomenal dish. Because it was a great recipe, really very easy to put together (if you have most of the suggested ingredients), and because it welcomes variations and improvisations. This time I included feta cheese for the first time, which wasn&#8217;t really an improvisation, since it&#8217;s suggested in the original, very sketchy &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-23256","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\/23256","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=23256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}