{"id":24245,"date":"2019-09-24T01:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24245"},"modified":"2019-09-24T01:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:53:26","slug":"mussels-lovage-chili-wine-tomato-shallot-red-fife-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24245","title":{"rendered":"mussels, lovage, chili, wine, tomato, shallot; red fife bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24256\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mussels_sep_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t expected to make it to either of my Greenmarket choices on Saturday, but when our plans changed, and I realized I&#8217;d be able to cook dinner that night, I rushed down the block to one of my favorite fishmongers.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the mussels, I couldn&#8217;t see anything else in the case.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a little more than two pounds of wild mussels (and I was told they had not <a href=\"http:\/\/seafoodsoftheworld.com\/shellfish_farmed_vs_wild\/\">grown on ropes<\/a>, or the equivalent),\u00a0purchased from American Seafood Company early that afternoon in the 23rd Street Market at Saturday\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/downtoearthmarkets.com\/markets?region=Manhattan&amp;market=Chelsea+Farmers+Market\">Chelsea\u2019s Down to Earth Farmers Market<\/a>, one block away from us, scrubbed and de-bearded where necessary, combined\u00a0in\u00a0a large heavy enameled pot (a larger round Le Creuset Doufeu \u2018dutch oven\u2019 I&#8217;ve had for almost 50 years) with over two cups of halved red cherry tomatoes\u00a0(one pint basket) from Alex&#8217;s Tomato Farm, a little more than half a cup of a good white wine, Miriam Alexandra California Chenin Blanc 2018, a few tablespoons of a chopped \u2018camelot\u2019 Dutch red shallot from Quarton Farm, 4 tablespoons Vermont Creamery Butter,\u00a0about a\u00a0quarter of a teaspoon of crushed\u00a0<em>Calabresi peperoncino\u00a0secchia<\/em>\u00a0from Buon Italia in the Chelsea Market, a generous\u00a0amount of freshly-ground black pepper, and a few tablespoons of some coarsely-chopped lovage from Quarton Farm, the pot then covered and its contents simply steamed over high heat for a few\u00a0minutes, arranged in shallow bowls, along with the wonderful pot liquor, and sprinkled with a little more lovage<\/li>\n<li>one red fife baguette(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Fife_wheat\">Red Fife<\/a> whole wheat flour, starter, and salt) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowsoutside.com\/\">Bobolink Dairy &amp; Bakehouse<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the wine was a French (Loire) ros\u00e9,\u00a0<a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/products\/patrice-grasset-loire-valley-rose-of-pinot-noir-2018\">Patrice Grasset Loire Valley 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\/#\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was an extremely early opera (1608) by <a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marco_da_Gagliano\">Marco Da Gagliano<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">, <\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Marco-Da-Gagliano-Studio-Di-Musica-Antica-Antonio-Il-Verso-Ensemble-Elyma-direction-Gabriel-Garrido-\/release\/8513346\">&#8216;La Dafne&#8217;, from the\u00a0Ensemble Vocale Dello Studio Di Music Antica Antonio Il Verso<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t expected to make it to either of my Greenmarket choices on Saturday, but when our plans changed, and I realized I&#8217;d be able to cook dinner that night, I rushed down the block to one of my favorite fishmongers. When I saw the mussels, I couldn&#8217;t see anything else in the case. a &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-24245","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\/24245","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=24245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}