{"id":24812,"date":"2019-11-09T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T01:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24812"},"modified":"2019-11-09T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T01:05:25","slug":"sea-bass-tomato-olive-salsa-micro-sorrel-radicchio-leeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24812","title":{"rendered":"sea bass, tomato\/olive salsa, micro sorrel; radicchio, leeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24835\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sea_bass_tomato_radicchio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s both a great fish and a luscious dish. Also, because of at least slight variations in the ingredients each time, starting with the kinds of tomatoes available, it never tastes quite the same. I think of that as a plus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24842\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/tomatoes_golden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the preparations began with a salsa, assembled about 30 minutes in advance inside a small bowl, containing one cup of halved golden\u00a0cherry tomatoes from Windfall Farms, half a cup of pitted and halved kalamata olives from Whole Foods Market, sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper, 2 finely chopped fresh aji dulce peppers from Eckerton Hill Farm, and a little olive oil, the mix set aside while the fish was cooked: four 4-ounce black sea bass fillets from American Seafood Company, seasoned on both sides with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, saut\u00e9ed skin side down over a fairly brisk flame in a little\u00a0Mac Nut\u00a0 macademia nut oil\u00a0(which has a higher smoke point than olive oil) from Whole Foods Market inside a large, heavy antique oval copper skillet skin side down, turned after about 2 minutes, the other side cooked for about the same length of time, removed to 2 warm plates when done, 2 tablespoons of butter added to the pan and allowed to melt, a couple tablespoons of chopped peppermint from Keith&#8217;s Farm and chopped parsley from Quarton Farm tossed in, along with a tablespoon or more of Whole Foods Market organic lemon juice, and everything stirred for a few seconds before the sauce was spooned on top of the bass and the salsa set aside earlier arranged in a cascade between the 2 filets on each plate, both fish and salsa garnished\u00a0with micro red vein sorrel from Two Guys from Woodbridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24843\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/second_radicchio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">six or 7 ounces remaining from a 17-ounce head of\u00a0<em>rosa di verona<\/em>\u00a0radicchio from Campo Rosso Farm, whose outer leaves had been used in <a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?s=Mac+Nut+macademia+\">an earlier meal<\/a>, cut roughly crosswise and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">saut\u00e9ed until barely wilted inside a large, high-sided tin-lined copper pot with a little olive oil in which one sliced medium\u00a0<\/span>&#8216;Chesnok Red&#8217;\u00a0garlic clove from Alewife Farm\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">and 2 thinly sliced French leeks from Mountain Sweet Berry Farm had already been heated until they had softened, <\/span><span class=\"s1\">seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, <\/span><span class=\"s1\">arranged on the plates and drizzled with a little more olive oil<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">the wine was a Portuguese (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D%C3%A3o_DOC\">D\u00e3o<\/a>) white,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/SearchResultsSingle.aspx?search=40282&amp;searchtype=Contains&amp;term=Prunus&amp;p=1\">Prunus White, D\u00e3o 2017<\/a>, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/Default.aspx\">Astor Wines<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">the music was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Freischutz-Andreas-Schager\/dp\/B07VBH5VQF\">Carl Maria von Weber&#8217;s important romantic German romantic opera, whose premier was in 1821, &#8216;Der Freischutz&#8217;, Mark Janowski conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s both a great fish and a luscious dish. Also, because of at least slight variations in the ingredients each time, starting with the kinds of tomatoes available, it never tastes quite the same. 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