{"id":24908,"date":"2019-11-12T01:21:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24908"},"modified":"2019-11-12T01:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:21:59","slug":"breakfast-with-less-was-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24908","title":{"rendered":"breakfast with less was a little more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24931\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/breakfast_really_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was good.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was a little simpler than many of these mid afternoon &#8216;fast breakers&#8217;, so I had at least metaphorically brought fewer things to the table. There were still a lot of containers however but fortunately I actually enjoy washing up afterward, and have never had a dishwasher, or even wanted one.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the drainer looked like after this relatively simple lunch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24925\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kitchen_drainer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>on the table earlier: 4 slices of thick bacon from pastured pigs and 6 fresh eggs from pastured chickens, all from the Amish family-run Millport Dairy Farm stand in the Union Square Greenmarket, the eggs seasoned with a local Long Island sea salt (from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood) and freshly ground black pepper, drizzled with a tiny amount of Brazil wax pepper-infused olive oil (the peppers from Eckerton Hill Farm, the infusion done at home), and sprinkled with red vein micro sorrel from Two Guys from Woodbridge, with a dollop of the cook\u2019s own homemade Zhug at the side; there was a small salad of red dandelions leaves from\u00a0Willow Wisp Farm seasoned with salt and pepper, and a good Cretan (Chania) olive oil, Renieris Estate \u2018Divina\u2019 (a Koroneiki varietal), from Chelsea Whole Foods Market, topped with a few differently toned cherry tomatoes from Norwich Meadows Farm that had been halved and heated in a little While Foods house Portuguese olive oil inside an antique enameled cast iron porringer and tossed with chopped thyme leaves from Quarton Farm; a rich local butter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicvalley.coop\/products\/butter\/pasture-butter\/\">Organic Valley \u2018Cultured Pasture Butter\u2019 <\/a>from Chelsea Whole Foods, and 2 breads, both from Lost Bread Co., neither toasted, a Homadama (wheat, corn, water, maple syrup, salt, slaked lime) and a Buck Honey Rye (rye, malted buckwheat groats, honey, water, salt)<\/li>\n<li>the music was the 1871-1872 oratorio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.operanews.com\/Opera_News_Magazine\/2016\/1\/Recordings\/MEINARDUS__Luther_in_Worms.html\">&#8216;Luther in Worms&#8217;, by the choral director, critic, and composer Ludwig Meinardus, performed by Hermann Max directing Concerto K\u00f6ln and the Rheinische Kantorei<\/a>\u00a0(neither Martin Luther nor the composer&#8217;s\u00a0conservative Protestantism appeal to either of us, but the subject of the piece and the conservative romantic composition itself occupy niches in history that interest both of us; Barry came across this recording and used it to fill the <em>niche<\/em> we generally reserve for religious music first thing on Sundays, a tradition in spite of, or possibly <em>because of<\/em>, the depth of our shared disbelief<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was good. Although it was a little simpler than many of these mid afternoon &#8216;fast breakers&#8217;, so I had at least metaphorically brought fewer things to the table. There were still a lot of containers however but fortunately I actually enjoy washing up afterward, and have never had a dishwasher, or even wanted one. &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-24908","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\/24908","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=24908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}