{"id":25199,"date":"2019-12-06T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=25199"},"modified":"2019-12-06T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:17:00","slug":"december-breakfast-bacon-and-eggs-tomatoes-and-chilis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=25199","title":{"rendered":"December breakfast: bacon and eggs, tomatoes and chilis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25272\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/breakfast_Dec_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was the first morning of December, so of course we enjoyed local tomatoes with our breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 that I used in this meal, saving the rest for a dinner the next day, came from a small stash that I thought at the time would be the last of a long season, but at the Greenmarket 3 days later I picked up 2 medium heirloom tomatoes and a basket of heirloom cherry tomatoes from a Pennsylvania farmer located further to the south (roughly 60 miles further) than the New York farm where these had been grown.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>our breakfast, a little simpler than usual, included\u00a04 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), freshly ground black pepper, and sprinkled with torn leaves off of a live basil plant from Stokes Farm, garnished on the side with a little purple micro radish from Windfall Farms; there was a small assembly of slices of small green tomatoes that had been warmed in a little olive oil inside a small copper skillet along with a few\u00a0chopped seasoning peppers (<em>aji dulce<\/em> (red) and Granada, both from Eckerton Hill Farm, served on a few leaves from a small head of <em>radicchio variegato di Castelfranco<\/em> from Campo Rosso Farm; a rich local butter (Organic Valley \u2018Cultured Pasture Butter\u2019 from Chelsea Whole Foods, and slices, untoasted, of\u00a0Homadama bread (wheat, corn, water, maple syrup, salt, slaked lime) from Lost Bread Co.<\/li>\n<li>the music was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glossamusic.com\/glossa\/reference.aspx?id=477\">Francesco Bartolomeo Conti&#8217;s 1715 &#8216;Missa Sancti Pauli&#8217;, Gy\u00f6rgy Vashegyi conducting the\u00a0Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the first morning of December, so of course we enjoyed local tomatoes with our breakfast. The 2 that I used in this meal, saving the rest for a dinner the next day, came from a small stash that I thought at the time would be the last of a long season, but at &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-25199","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\/25199","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=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}