{"id":3670,"date":"2015-02-28T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2015-02-28T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:45:27","slug":"roasted-squid-with-oregano-chiles-baked-frites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=3670","title":{"rendered":"roasted squid with oregano, chiles; baked ‘frites’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I really rushed through the preparation of this meal tonight, but it turned out very well. \u00a0I had originally thought I\u00a0wouldn’t have time to cook after getting home from a\u00a0performance which was a part of\u00a0the Sixth Annual Avant Music Festival<\/a>\u00a0(a terrific evening of music by Paula Matthusen<\/a>) but when I learned that the length of the program was to be\u00a0only about 70 minutes, I went out and bought seafood at the Greenmarket today. \u00a0As it turned out, the music\u00a0began late (it had been\u00a0sold out early,\u00a0but\u00a0there was some late seating, and I think everyone who showed up may have made it in), and even though one of Matthusen’s\u00a0pieces had to be pulled because of a musician’s illness, we didn’t get out until pretty close to 10 o’clock. \u00a0 Also, on the way home, we had some sorta-bad subway karma. \u00a0This meant there would be no time for any fanciness in the kitchen, or much\u00a0thinking\u00a0about choice of\u00a0ingredients or cooking\u00a0details.<\/p>\n

What I ended up putting on the table was a simple meal, its elements very familiar to us, of spicy roasted baby squid, and a reasonable approximation of frites<\/em>, which were in this case baked and finished with two different forms\u00a0of allium. \u00a0The squid recipe is the absolutely wonderful creation of\u00a0Rose Gray and the late Ruth Rogers, from their, \u201cItalian Easy:\u00a0 Recipes from the London River Cafe<\/a>“. \u00a0I highly recommend the recipe and the book, as well as their\u00a0“The River Cafe Cook Book” and “Italian Two Easy, Simple Recipes from the London River Caf\u00e9”. \u00a0Each of them is a jewel, and together they could serve very well as a complete\u00a0kitchen library.<\/p>\n

The cephalopods would have taken\u00a0only 10\u00a0minutes from\u00a0start to finish, but,\u00a0after I had rinsed them I set them out to\u00a0come to room temperature, they had to wait for the potatoes, which probably took all of 45 minutes.<\/p>\n