{"id":25237,"date":"2019-12-07T22:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T22:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=25237"},"modified":"2019-12-07T22:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T22:33:19","slug":"shallot-chilis-wine-braised-chicken-brassica-baguette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=25237","title":{"rendered":"pan roast chicken, shallot\/chilis\/wine\/herb sauce; brassica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25308\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chicken_thigh_brassica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Chicken <em>for<\/em> Every Pot&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25315\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chicken-source.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoover never said any such thing, although his enthusiastic supporters did include the phrase in in a 1928 campaign advertisement boasting that Republican\u00a0prosperity had:<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8216;&#8221;..put the proverbial &#8216;chicken in every pot.&#8217; And a car in every backyard, to boot.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Republican prosperity is history, but the attraction of chicken continues to this day, as does that of the car.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, the chicken part of the phrase probably has its origins in seventeenth century France; Henry IV (<em>le bon roi Henri<\/em>) reputedly wished that each of his peasants would enjoy &#8220;a chicken in his pot every Sunday.&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/history\/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases\/chicken-every-pot\">encyclopedia.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>While Barry and I don&#8217;t yearn for a car in our backyard (we live in the middle of Manhattan, so we don&#8217;t have to test our commitment to a small carbon footprint, and our backyard is a garden), but we do find a chicken, or parts of a chicken, in an occasional pot, and the occasion isn&#8217;t just a Sunday these days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p6\">two fresh 8-ounce New York State chicken thighs from Cascun Farms, purchased at Eataly Flatiron (in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/05\/11\/magazine\/mag-11eat-chicken.html\">a preparation partly inspired by Mark Bittman<\/a>) seasoned on both sides with a local P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, browned well in two tablespoons or so of Organic Valley \u2018Cultured Pasture Butter\u2019 inside a medium size oval enameled high-sided cast iron pot, then covered with aluminum foil (it needn&#8217;t be a tight seal), then cooked over medium-low heat, turning occasionally, until the internal temperature was 155-165 degrees, or the juices ran clear when pricked with a fork, which was roughly 15 minutes, transferred to a small oval platter and covered with the foil to keep warm, ideally the platter, or at least the plates, kept inside a warm oven while the sauce was completed, beginning with one shallot from Norwich Meadows Farm,\u00a03 small seasoning peppers, one <em>aji dulce<\/em>\u00a0(red) and 2 small Granada (yellow, with the flavor of a habanero, but a fraction of the heat), both from Eckerton Hill Farm were stirred in and allowed to soften a little before about a third of a cup of white wine [Matt Iaconis Napa Valley Chardonnay 2017] was added to the pot, the heat raised to medium high and the liquid boiled until reduced quite a bit, or until it was a of the consistency of a sauce, a generous amount of chopped winter savory from Stokes Farm added and stirred in, the sauce transferred to a glass sauce boat, from which some of it was poured over the chicken, which had now arranged on plates<\/li>\n<li>the remaining greens from a &#8216;braising mix&#8217; (young\u00a0<em><a title=\"Brassicaceae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brassicaceae\">Brassicaceae<\/a><\/em>: kale, collards, mustards, escarole, and dandelion) purchased from Keith&#8217;s Farm at the Union Square Greenmarket, mixed together with the leaves left from a bunch\u00a0of broccoli raab from Lani&#8217;s Farm,\u00a0<em>barely<\/em>\u00a0wilted in a little olive oil in which several small rocambole garlic cloves, also from Keith&#8217;sFarm, had been heated until fragrant and beginning to soften, seasoned with sea salt, and freshly-ground black pepper<\/li>\n<li>slices from a\u00a0small sunflower and flax seed sourdough peasant baguette from Hawthorne Valley Farm<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a Portuguese (D\u00e3o), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/SearchResultsSingle.aspx?p=1&amp;search=34630&amp;searchtype=Contains\">Niepoort Rotulo Tinto, D\u00e3o 2016<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astorwines.com\/Default.aspx\">Astor Wines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000001GRA\/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_fj05DbG2BJW38\">Beethoven&#8217;s &#8216;Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel&#8217;<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claudio_Abbado\">Claudio Abbado<\/a> conducting the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_db_clas_orch?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Berlin%20Philharmonic%20Orchestra&amp;search-alias=classical\">Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_db_clas_orch?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Belrin%20Radio%20Chorus&amp;search-alias=classical\">\u00a0Radio Chorus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[the image of the Republican political flier is from <a href=\"https:\/\/iowaculture.gov\/history\/education\/educator-resources\/primary-source-sets\/great-depression-and-herbert-hoover\/chicken\">IowaCulture.gov<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Chicken for Every Pot&#8221; Hoover never said any such thing, although his enthusiastic supporters did include the phrase in in a 1928 campaign advertisement boasting that Republican\u00a0prosperity had: &#8216;&#8221;..put the proverbial &#8216;chicken in every pot.&#8217; And a car in every backyard, to boot.&#8221; The Republican prosperity is history, but the attraction of chicken continues &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-25237","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\/25237","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=25237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}