{"id":23442,"date":"2019-08-03T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=23442"},"modified":"2019-08-03T23:27:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:27:13","slug":"scallops-garlic-flowers-amaranth-eggplant-garlic-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=23442","title":{"rendered":"scallops, garlic flowers; amaranth; eggplant, garlic, herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23455\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/scallops_eggplant_amaranth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These images, and especially the plates, are still looking a little pink, since I haven&#8217;t yet fixed the wiring on the 100-year-old overhead fixture in the breakfast room (I turn up the light at dinner only for the photographs), so I&#8217;m using a 100-year-old gooseneck lamp in the interim, which apparently has a rosy reflector.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23461\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/larger_scallops.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>twelve good-sized sea scallops (16 ounces total) from American Seafood Company, rinsed, dried very thoroughly with paper towels, seasoned with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wagnerblog\/status\/1130585718198345728\">local Long Island sea salt<\/a> from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood\u00a0and freshly-ground black pepper, grilled briefly (90 seconds on each side) in a very hot medium size square enameled cast iron pan\u00a0[I think not hot enough this time, since the grill marks are a little subdued], finished with a squeeze of juice from a small Mexican organic lemon from Chelsea Whole Foods Market, then a scattering of garlic flowers from Alewife Farm and a drizzle of Whole Foods Market house Portuguese olive oil, arranged on the plates with a sprinkling of\u00a0micro red amaranth from Two Guys from Woodbridge placed at the side<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23462\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Jap_eggplant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>three medium Japanese eggplant (10 ounces total), also from Alewife Farm, each halved lengthwise and scored with a very sharp knife, brushed all over with a mixture of a little olive oil, 2 finely-chopped garlic cloves from Stokes Farm, a pinch of super-pungent dried Sicilian oregano from Buon Italia, local sea salt and black pepper, pan-grilled on an enameled cast iron ribbed pan above a brisk flame, turning twice, adding more of the material from the marinade the second time, then arranged on the plates and sprinkled with a combination of torn mint [peppermint?] leaves\u00a0from Alex&#8217;s Tomato Farm and chopped lovage from S. &amp; S. O. Produce Farms, drizzled with a bit of more olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a Portuguese (Minho) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/sku07234.html\">Soalheiro Allo Loureiro Alvarinho 2016<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garnetwine.com\/\">Garnet Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=2259144\">Handel&#8217;s 1713 opera, &#8216;Lucio Cornelio Silla&#8217;, Fabio Biondi conducting the ensemble\u00a0Europa Galante<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These images, and especially the plates, are still looking a little pink, since I haven&#8217;t yet fixed the wiring on the 100-year-old overhead fixture in the breakfast room (I turn up the light at dinner only for the photographs), so I&#8217;m using a 100-year-old gooseneck lamp in the interim, which apparently has a rosy reflector. &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-23442","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\/23442","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=23442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}