{"id":5670,"date":"2015-10-14T06:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T06:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2015-10-14T06:05:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T06:05:06","slug":"spaghetti-artigianali-con-melanzane-e-parmigiano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"spaghetti artigianali con melanzane e parmigiano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spaghetto_melanzane_parmesan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5671\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spaghetto_melanzane_parmesan.jpg\" alt=\"spaghetto_melanzane_parmesan\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>extravagantly simple, and\u00a0also simply lavish<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There could hardly be a simpler meal than this one. \u00a0In addition, few could be\u00a0easier\u00a0to make, if it weren&#8217;t\u00a0for the amount of attention needed to see that a large number of\u00a0simple eggplant &#8216;coins&#8217; are properly \u00a0cooked before they&#8217;re tossed with an extraordinarily good artisanal pasta.<\/p>\n<p>I found the very minimal recipe many years ago\u00a0inside\u00a0a\u00a0magazine article describing half a dozen simple pasta dishes. It was described by Fred Plotkin as the inspiration of Signora Francesca Pantonocito, relayed to him by her daughter Laura.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t find anything on line about either Pantonocito, so I have noting else to share, except one\u00a0very useful tip, from the recipe&#8217;s author, that zucchini could well be substituted for the eggplant. \u00a0Normally I&#8217;d be tempted to suggest adding mint in either case, but this formula is absolutely perfect as it is, so long as a very good pasta is used.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setaro spaghetto\u00a0from Buon Italia (about eight ounces), tossed in a large cast-iron pan in which thinly-sliced coins of Japanese eggplant from Lani&#8217;s Farm had been allowed to brown in\u00a0a coating of olive oil over high (but not smoking) heat, then removed, the oil remaining, the pasta with\u00a0<em>melanzane<\/em>\u00a0then finished with freshly-ground black pepper and a generous sprinkling of very good Red Cow Parmesan cheese from Eataly<\/li>\n<li>the wine was an Italian (Sicily) red, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duca.it\/en\/vino-corvo\/corvo-rosso\/\">Corvo Nero d&#8217;Avola 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was the <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynrider.com\/\">Brooklyn Rider<\/a> album, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/dominant-curve-mw0001960679\">Dominant Curve<\/a>&#8216;, which includes Debussy&#8217;s String Quartet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>extravagantly simple, and\u00a0also simply lavish &nbsp; There could hardly be a simpler meal than this one. \u00a0In addition, few could be\u00a0easier\u00a0to make, if it weren&#8217;t\u00a0for the amount of attention needed to see that a large number of\u00a0simple eggplant &#8216;coins&#8217; are properly \u00a0cooked before they&#8217;re tossed with an extraordinarily good artisanal pasta. I found the very &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","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\/5670","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}