{"id":23528,"date":"2019-08-08T00:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T00:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=23528"},"modified":"2019-08-08T00:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T00:19:27","slug":"rigatone-chili-peppers-scapes-scallion-tomato-epazote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=23528","title":{"rendered":"rigatone, scapes, chili peppers, scallion, tomato, epazote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23532\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rigatone_peppers_epazote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was delicious. but we we both got a pepper scare with our initial bites: The little yellow capsicum had been described as sweet and juicy (&#8220;citrusy sweet&#8217;, the sign said), and I neither heard nor saw any mention of heat, so when I was looking around for something to add to a good artisanal pasta last night I zeroed in on these little ones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23535\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bonbon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For one reason or another, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capsaicin\">capsaicinoids<\/a> soon became much less of a problem than our first taste had suggested they would be. Introducing some good bread to the table relieved the pressure initially, and we were able to sit back and enjoy the dish &#8211; and taste a good wine.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">half a dozen garlic scapes from Norwich Meadows Farm, sliced into one-inch sections, heated over a moderate flame in a little olive oil inside a large antique copper pot before adding 8 or 9 sliced &#8216;Bon Bon&#8217; peppers from Campo Rosso Farm, saut\u00e9eing them until they had softened and begun to caramelize, adding one thinly sliced fresh habanada pepper near the end of that time, also from Campo Rosso Farm, and then stirring in the green section of a scallion stem from Alex&#8217;s Tomato Farm in Chelsea\u2019s Down to Earth Farmers Market on 23rd Street, and tossing in\u00a09 ounces of very good Campania pasta, cooked <em>al dente<\/em>\u00a0(Afeltra 100% Grano Italiano Biologico Pasta di Grannano IG.P. Artigianale rigatone from Eataly Flatiron) with almost a cup of pasta water,\u00a0the mix stirred over a high flame until the liquid had emulsified, one chopped yellow heirloom tomato from Norwich Meadows Farm and some chopped epazote from TransGenerational Farm mixed in, the dish arranged inside shallow bowls, a little olive oil drizzled around the edges, and more epazote sprinkled on top<\/li>\n<li>slices of an extraordinarily fine loaf of bread, \u2018Seedy Grains\u2019 (wheat, spelt, rye, and barley organic bread flours; buckwheat; oats; flax sesame, sunflower, <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">and pumpkin seeds; water, and salt) from\u00a0Lost Bread Company<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">the wine was a California (grapes from both Suisun Valley and Sonoma) ros\u00e9, <a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/products\/evangelos-bagias-california-rose-2018\">Evangelos Bagias Three Graces Ros\u00e9 of Pinot Noir 2018<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">, from <\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/full_site#\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">the music was <a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arts-florissants.com\/main\/en_GB\/all-the-cds\/david-jonathas.html\">Charpentier&#8217;s 1688 <em>trag\u00e9die en musique<\/em>, &#8216;David et Jonathas&#8217;,\u00a0William Christie conducting the Choir and Orchestra of Les Arts Florissants<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was delicious. but we we both got a pepper scare with our initial bites: The little yellow capsicum had been described as sweet and juicy (&#8220;citrusy sweet&#8217;, the sign said), and I neither heard nor saw any mention of heat, so when I was looking around for something to add to a good artisanal &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-23528","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\/23528","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=23528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}