{"id":5644,"date":"2015-10-11T17:31:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2015-10-11T17:31:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:31:31","slug":"egg-batter-fried-flounder-with-leek-dill-green-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=5644","title":{"rendered":"egg batter fried flounder with leek, dill; green beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/flounder_leeks_dill_pole_beans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5646\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/flounder_leeks_dill_pole_beans.jpg\" alt=\"flounder_leeks_dill_pole_beans\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had picked up a single large flounder fillet at the Greenmarket around midday on Saturday, and then put it safely in the refrigerator, but by the time we finally left a reception at some friends&#8217; home, it was around 10\u00a0at night,\u00a0so the clock was definitely ticking when I arrived home: \u00a0I had to come up with a treatment &#8211; and for a vegetable to accompany it &#8211; which\u00a0could\u00a0get us to bed at a reasonable hour (well, reasonable for us).<\/p>\n<p>Preparing\u00a0the\u00a0flounder\u00a0much as I usually do could have saved a few minutes, but I really wanted to move into new territory, so I tried something I hadn&#8217;t done before, ending\u00a0up losing little or no time in the process. \u00a0The recipe I turned to, but altered in practice,\u00a0was\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/12458-egg-batter-pan-fried-flounder-with-green-garlic\">David Tanis, as printed in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of the vegetables I had on hand, I decided that the fastest to prepare, and one\u00a0which\u00a0would\u00a0also work well with the fish, was the\u00a0rather special pole beans I had also picked up today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one large 17 ounce flounder fillet from P.E. &amp; D.D. Seafood, divided into four pieces, to serve two (if you know the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samrust.com\/infopictures\/Flounder%20Fillet.JPG\">asymmetrical shape<\/a> of a flounder fillet, you&#8217;ll know why I did that), seasoned with salt and pepper on both sides, coated lightly with flour (I used <a href=\"http:\/\/ncfarms.net\/\">North Country Farms Stone Ground Whole Wheat Flour<\/a>), submerged in a shallow bowl containing a whipped mixture of 1\/3 cup of milk, one large egg from Millport Dairy, and a pinch of salt; when a\u00a0mixture of olive oil and butter in a shallow\u00a0skillet began to look wavy, fried until golden, about two minutes for each side, removed, blotted on paper towels, transferred onto two warm plates; \u00a0any oil remaining poured off, the skillet returned to heat, now lower, three tablespoons of butter melted, followed by\u00a0one small, very fresh leek from Ryder Farm, chopped thinly, salt, and pepper, which were\u00a0allowed to cook together\u00a0without browning (for about one minute), more than a tablespoon of lemon juice added, and the sauce stirred, then\u00a0about a tablespoon of chopped dill flowers from Ryder Farms added, the sauce poured over the warm plated fillets, served with pieces of lemon (wedges would be far more convenient than the slices pictured here); note: Once at the table, and after I had photographed the plate, I sprinkled chopped parsley from Keith&#8217;s Farm over the top of the flounder, since the dill was surprisingly subtle in effect by itself<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sowtrueseed.com\/beans-bush-bean\/maxibel-haricot-vert-organic\/\">\u2018Maxibel\u2019 green beans<\/a>\u00a0from Norwich Meadows Farm, blanched, drained and dried, reheated in oil, finished with salt, pepper, and lovage from Keith&#8217;s Farm<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a California white, <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nakedwines.com\/wines\/scott-mcleod-chardonnay-russian-river-valley-2014.htm\">Scott McLeod Chardonnay Russian River Valley 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music included\u00a0symphonies by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franz_Anton_Hoffmeister\">Franz Anton Hoffmeister<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Haydn\">Franz Josef Haydn<\/a>, and it included Haydn&#8217;s exquisite homage (whether conscious or unconscious) to the age in which his art flourished, his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphony_No._22_(Haydn)\">Symphony No. 22, \u00a0&#8216;<em>Der Philosoph<\/em>&#8216;<\/a>, here, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nI4scpZ_e3Q\">the entire adagio\u00a0can be\u00a0heard<\/a>, performed by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahler_Chamber_Orchestra\">Mahler Chamber Orchestra<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_Minkowski\">Marc Minkowski<\/a> conductor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had picked up a single large flounder fillet at the Greenmarket around midday on Saturday, and then put it safely in the refrigerator, but by the time we finally left a reception at some friends&#8217; home, it was around 10\u00a0at night,\u00a0so the clock was definitely ticking when I arrived home: \u00a0I had to &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-5644","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\/5644","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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}