{"id":24309,"date":"2019-09-26T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T21:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24309"},"modified":"2019-09-26T21:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T21:27:45","slug":"shallot-chili-rose-braised-chicken-pericon-potato-chicory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24309","title":{"rendered":"shallot\/chili\/ros\u00e9-braised chicken, peric\u00f3n; potato; chicory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24313\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chicken_thigh_potatoes_radicchio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t get to Union Square on Wednesday because I had to stay home waiting for the plumbers (a double indignity).<\/p>\n<p>Once I was free (and hundreds of dollars lighter), it was too late to expect to find anything at the Greenmarket fish stall, so I headed down the street toward Eataly Flatiron.\u00a0 Once there I checked around and texted Barry, asking for his preference among 4 of my suggestions, &#8220;Luca Donofrio\u2019s fresh <em>ravioli di zucca<\/em>, a small New York strip steak, chicken thighs, or a duck breast.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t reply immediately, but just as I had narrowed down my own preferences and had come up with chicken, I saw on my phone screen that he had suggested the same.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Chicken it was, and very good chicken, and it turned out to be a happy choice, as it always is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The preparation was inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/05\/11\/magazine\/mag-11eat-chicken.html\">a great, and quite simple Marc Bitttman recipe<\/a>, very open to adjustments and elaboration.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I can now confirm that you <em>can<\/em> successfully substitute a ros\u00e9 for a white as a cooking wine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24331\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chicken_sauce_in_making.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I mostly succeeded in restraining myself from going overboard with the ingredients this time, but I couldn&#8217;t resist including one tiny, mostly heatless red chili pepper and one extremely small very hot ur-pepper in the mix that produced the sauce, if only as an experiment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\">two 8-ounce fresh New York State chicken thighs, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourharvest.com\/suppliers\/cascun-farm\/\">Cascun Farms<\/a>, purchased at Eataly Flatiron, the loose skin of one pinned with 3 toothpicks, seasoned on both sides with local P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, browned well in two tablespoons or so of Organic Valley \u2018Cultured Pasture Butter\u2019 inside a medium oval enameled high-sided cast iron pot, then covered with aluminum foil (it doesn&#8217;t have to be a tight seal at all, and it definitely wasn&#8217;t) and cooked over medium-low heat, turning occasionally, until the internal temperature is 155-165 degrees, or the juices run clear, which was roughly 15 minutes, transferred to a small oval platter and covered with the foil to keep warm while 3 minced very small round shallots from Lucky Dog Organic Farm, one small chopped red shishito pepper from Alewife Farm, and only one finely chopped small-pea-size yellow Brazil wax pepper from Eckerton Hill Farm were stirred in and allowed to soften before about a third of a cup of ros\u00e9 wine (an Oregon Willamette Valley ros\u00e9,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/products\/chris-baker-willamette-rose-of-pinot-noir-2018\">Chris Baker Willamette Valley Rose of Pinot Noir 2018<\/a>, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/full_site#\/\">Naked Wines<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">] was added to the pot and the heat raised to medium high, until the liquid reduced quite a bit, or until it was a of the consistency of a sauce, a generous amount of chopped<\/span> <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><em>peric\u00f3n<\/em>\u00a0(<\/span>Mexican tarragon) from Quarton Farm was added and stirred in before it was transferred to a glass sauce boat, from which some of it was poured over the chicken, now arranged on plates<\/li>\n<li>three different kinds of potato (because I didn&#8217;t have enough of any one kind), &#8216;Chieftain&#8217; potatoes from Keith&#8217;s Farm,&#8217;Pinto&#8217; potatoes from Norwich Meadows Farm, and &#8216;Purple Peruvian&#8217; potatoes, also from Norwich Meadows Farm, washed, scrubbed, and boiled unpeeled in generously-salted water until barely cooked through, drained, halved, dried in the\u00a0still-warm large vintage Corning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndga.net\/articles\/gmflameware.php\">Pyrex Flameware<\/a>\u00a0blue-glass\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/VIntage-Pyrex-6-Piece-Blue-Tint-Flameware-Stovetop-Pans-Removeable-Handles-\/111577304599\">pot<\/a>\u00a0in which they had cooked, rolled in a little butter, seasoned with salt and pepper and arranged on the plates\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">garnished with micro scallion from Two Guys from Woodbridge\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">one medium head of radicchio from Tamarack Hollow Farm, sliced broadly and saut\u00e9ed until barely wilted inside a large, high-sided tin-lined copper pot with a little olive oil in which one sliced medium tropea onion from Alewife Farm had been allowed to soften, seasoned with salt and black pepper, finished with a splash of white balsamic vinegar and arranged on the plates, with a little more added at the table later, to offset the unusual bitterness of the chicory<\/span><\/li>\n<li>the wine was a French (Loire\/Cheverny\/Cour-Cheverny) red,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesortingtable.com\/wines\/terra-laura\/2016-cheverny-rouge\/\">Domaine de Montcy Cheverny Rouge 2016<\/a>,\u00a0probably from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/philippeliquorsnyc.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Philippe Wines<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=2261455#review\">the album,\u00a0&#8216;L&#8217;homme de genie&#8217;, which is Volume 5 from the project, &#8216;Haydn 2032&#8217;,\u00a0with 3 Haydn symphonies and one by Joseph Martin Kraus, all performed by\u00a0Giovanni Antonini conducting the\u00a0Basel Chamber Orchestra<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t get to Union Square on Wednesday because I had to stay home waiting for the plumbers (a double indignity). Once I was free (and hundreds of dollars lighter), it was too late to expect to find anything at the Greenmarket fish stall, so I headed down the street toward Eataly Flatiron.\u00a0 Once there &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-24309","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\/24309","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=24309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}