{"id":24724,"date":"2019-10-27T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T22:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24724"},"modified":"2019-10-27T22:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T22:23:27","slug":"prosciutto-arugula-pasta-alliums-habanada-micro-kale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24724","title":{"rendered":"prosciutto, arugula; pasta, alliums, habanada, micro kale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24732\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/prosciutto_cracker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a somewhat meaty first course and a vegan main, although since the flavors were so rich,\u00a0 Barry had to ask me whether meat had any part in the latter. It did not, so I think the suggestion of it came from the savoriness of the habanada pepper, the smokiness of the toasted pine nuts, and\/or the earthiness of the micro kale finish.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>antipasto<\/em>, or the appetizer course, was more southern Italian than the next one.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>slices from a 2-ounce package of la Quercia &#8216;Prosciutto Americano&#8217; from Chelsea Whole Foods Market arranged beside some leaves of arugula from Jersey Farm Produce Inc. in the Saturday 23rd Street farmers market, that had been drizzled with olive oil (Renieris Estate &#8216;Divina&#8217; (Koroneiki varietal), Hania, Crete, from Whole Foods Market, seasoned with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wagnerblog\/status\/1130585718198345728\">local Long Island sea salt<\/a>\u00a0from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood\u00a0and freshly-ground black pepper, then one sliced ripe medium red heirloom tomato, its one overripe section first severed from the rest and discarded, placed on top of the arugula, also drizzled with a little of the oil, sprinkled with scissored chives from Space at Ryder Farm, and seasoned with salt and pepper too [the rosemary cracker in the picture to the right of the arugula is an errant part of the accompaniment to our drinks before dinner]<\/li>\n<li>slices of\u00a0&#8216;Whole wheat Redeemer Bread&#8217; (wheat, water, salt) from Lost Bread Co. (not in the picture)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24729\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/einkorn_pasta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <em>primi<\/em>, or main, in this case, to the extent that it echoed Italy at all, was the more northern Italian of the two.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one sliced red spring onion from Norwich Meadows Farm and one chopped clove of &#8216;Chesnok Red&#8217; garlic from Alewife Farm heated until both were fragrant in\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">a couple tablespoons of Whole Foods Market house Portuguese olive oil inside a large antique copper pot, followed by one thinly sliced <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2017\/02\/28\/the-habanada-pepper-fresh-and-dried-two-ways\/\">habanada pepper<\/a> from Alewife Farm stirred in,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">and then, as soon as it had finished cooking to an\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">al dente<\/em><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0state, 9 ounces from a one-pound box of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfoglini.com\/products\/einkorn-blend-macaroni\">Sfoglini Einkorn Macaroni<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">, together with a cup of the cooking water, tossed in, the heat under the pan pushed to high and the mix cooked, stirring, until the liquid had emulsified, arranged in shallow bowls with a little olive oil drizzled around the edges, garnished with some micro kale from Norwich Meadows Farm\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">the wine throughout the meal was an Italian (Puglia) white,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/dominic-hentall-terra-bianca-2018?cid=US\">Dominic Hentall Terra Bianca 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 throughout was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2017\/jul\/27\/arcangelo-buxtehude-trio-sonatas-op-1-cd-review-gent-manson-dunford-cohen-alpha\">an album of\u00a0Dieterich Buxtehude&#8217;s Trio Sonatas, performed by harpsichordist Jonathan Cohen and three musicians from his ensemble Arcangelo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a somewhat meaty first course and a vegan main, although since the flavors were so rich,\u00a0 Barry had to ask me whether meat had any part in the latter. It did not, so I think the suggestion of it came from the savoriness of the habanada pepper, the smokiness of the toasted pine &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-24724","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\/24724","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=24724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}