{"id":2934,"date":"2014-12-22T06:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2014-12-22T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T06:52:10","slug":"braised-lamb-shank-polenta-brussels-sprouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"braised lamb shank; polenta; Brussels sprouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lambshank2_polenta_sprouts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2941\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lambshank2_polenta_sprouts.jpg\" alt=\"lambshank2_polenta_sprouts\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This meal and\u00a0the first evening of winter made\u00a0a perfect pairing, although\u00a0there wasn&#8217;t any snow, and the temperature never got anywhere near freezing (I think). \u00a0The recipe is from the first of the terrific <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_River_Caf%C3%A9_(London)\">Gray and Rogers<\/a> cookbooks,\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rogers-Gray-Italian-Country-Cook\/dp\/067945001\">Rogers Gray Italian Country Cook Book<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>I just now noticed that the recipe appears all over the internet, in most cases\u00a0without crediting\u00a0Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/caseyellis.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/river-cafe.html\">This site<\/a> furnishes both the recipe and a proper attribution, but I heartily recommend buying all three of their books; I refer to each of them regularly, and find some of the simple recipes\u00a0indispensable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lamb shank from 3-Corner Field Farm, braised\u00a0with red onions from Norwich Meadows Farm, chopped garlic from Migliorelli Farm, chopped fresh rosemary from Phillips Farm, and a significant amount of both balsamic vinegar and a decent red wine<\/li>\n<li>coarse polenta, stirred with milk and water, finished with butter and Gorgonzola cheese from Eataly<\/li>\n<li>brussels sprouts taken home on a stem from Oak River Plantation, roasted in the oven with olive oil, salt, and pepper<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a superb California red, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelseawinevault.com\/mazzocco-dry-creek-cabernet-2011#.VJe_H8ACA\">Mazzocco Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 from Dry Creek Valley<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This meal and\u00a0the first evening of winter made\u00a0a perfect pairing, although\u00a0there wasn&#8217;t any snow, and the temperature never got anywhere near freezing (I think). \u00a0The recipe is from the first of the terrific Gray and Rogers cookbooks,\u00a0\u201cRogers Gray Italian Country Cook Book\u201c. I just now noticed that the recipe appears all over the internet, &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-2934","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\/2934","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=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}