{"id":24913,"date":"2019-11-14T00:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24913"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:39:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:39:38","slug":"fennel-rubbed-tuna-sorrel-tomatoes-oregano-red-mustard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=24913","title":{"rendered":"fennel-rubbed tuna, sorrel; tomatoes, oregano; red mustard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24949\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/tuna_tomato_mustard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This tuna dish is incredibly easy to assemble, and it&#8217;s always a huge treat, but this time it was heaven.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two 7 or 8-ounce yellowfin tuna steaks from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood, rinsed, dried, tops and bottoms seasoned with local sea salt produced by the fisherman himself and freshly-ground black pepper, \u2018paved\u2019 with a mixture of less than a tablespoon of some incredibly pungent dried <em>Semi di Finocchietto Ibleo<\/em> [wild Sicilian fennel seed] harvested in the Iblei Mountains, from Eataly Flatiron, and a little dried Itria-Sirissi chili, <em>pepperoncino di Sardegna intero<\/em>\u00a0from Buon Italia\u00a0in the Chelsea Market [both first crushed together in a porcelain mortar and pestle], plus a very small amount of dried golden habanada pepper, the steaks pan-grilled above a medium-high flame for little more than a minute or so on each side, finished on the plates with a good squeeze of the juice of an organic California lemon from Chelsea Whole Foods Market, garnished with micro red-vein sorrel from Two Guys from Woodbridge, finished with a drizzle of Chelsea Whole Foods Market Portuguese house olive oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24965\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/subtel_toms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a mix of subtly different tones of small cherry tomatoes (14 ounces) from Norwich Meadows Farm, washed, dried, each punctured at least once with a steel trussing pin, heated in a little olive oil inside a small copper skillet, seasoned with salt and Pepper, and mixed with a little chopped fresh oregano from Rise &amp; Root Farm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24966\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mustard_red.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a bouquet of beautiful red frill mustard from Norwich Meadows Farm washed and drained in several changes of water, wilted in a little olive oil in which several cloves of &#8216;Chesnok Red&#8217;\u00a0garlic\u00a0from Alewife Farm had been allowed to sweat a bit, seasoned with salt and pepper and finished on the plates with a drizzle of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon<\/li>\n<li>the mix of sauces on the plates called for some bread, in this case thin slices of a Lost Bread Co. loaf of Buck Honey Rye (rye, malted buckwheat groats, honey, water, and salt)<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a New York (Hudson River\/Pine Bush) ros\u00e9, the unfiltered\u00a0<a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/vinoshipper.com\/wines\/wild_arc_farm\/cabernet_franc_ros_22,860\">Wild Arc Farm Cabernet Franc Ros\u00e9 2017, Bruynswick Vineyard<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">, which we had purchased from the vintners themselves last weekend<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24968\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Maher_Walter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DJing these meals (almost entirely Barry&#8217;s responsibilty) isn&#8217;t always as easy as we make it look; on this particular evening we began and stopped 5 different recordings before we came up with this incredible winner:\u00a0<a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mahler-Symphony-Major-Titan-Remastered\/dp\/B07Z4181SQ\">a remastered 1961 recording of a magnificent performance of Gustav Mahler&#8217;s symphony, No. 1 in D Major, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer&#8217;s friend and champion Bruno Walter<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">, who was at the composer&#8217;s deathbed in Vienna 1911\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">[and that&#8217;s right, a world class symphony orchestra endowed by a corporate radio and TV station; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_radio_orchestras\">European nations still have them<\/a>, and Germany has a total of 14]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[image of Mahler and Walter from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KS36znFCAMM\">Mahler Foundation achive<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tuna dish is incredibly easy to assemble, and it&#8217;s always a huge treat, but this time it was heaven. two 7 or 8-ounce yellowfin tuna steaks from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood, rinsed, dried, tops and bottoms seasoned with local sea salt produced by the fisherman himself and freshly-ground black pepper, \u2018paved\u2019 with a mixture &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-24913","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\/24913","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=24913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}