{"id":6849,"date":"2016-01-29T01:41:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T01:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2016-01-29T01:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T01:41:18","slug":"insalata-caprese-sea-bass-parsley-carrots-and-thyme-kale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=6849","title":{"rendered":"insalata caprese; sea bass, parsley; carrots and thyme; kale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/insalata_caprese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6853\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/insalata_caprese.jpg\" alt=\"insalata_caprese\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>first course<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was already getting late, but the meal wasn&#8217;t going to take long. \u00a0Then I realized that this night might be\u00a0my\u00a0only opportunity I&#8217;d have for using some mozzarella remaining from that which I&#8217;d bought for a meal a few days earlier. \u00a0I also had some decent fresh basil which wasn&#8217;t going to be decent\u00a0(fresh) much longer. \u00a0I also had a few small-ish tomatoes on hand, so of course I thought, <em>insalata caprese<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The salad can be\u00a0put together quickly. \u00a0For those who might not know how to go about it, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/insalata-caprese-13232\">this simple recipe<\/a>.\u00a0 Preparing the bass fillets, even with the side dishes, should also not have taken very long, but putting\u00a0both together in a small kitchen at once, when both of us were already hungry, got a little complicated\u00a0(I began to think I had four hands &#8211; and two heads).<\/p>\n<p>Because we did have\u00a0two main courses, we finished dinner later than we might have &#8211; or\u00a0wanted to &#8211; but\u00a0it was all good in the end.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a caprese salad, assembled on two plates, using\u00a0<em>Fior di Latte<\/em> mozzarella from Buon Italia,\u00a0Backyard Farms Maine \u2018cocktail tomatoes\u2019 from\u00a0Whole Foods, very local\u00a0basil (Gotham Rooftop) from Whole Foods, and some pungent\u00a0dried Italian oregano from Buon Italia (even though the recipe I referred to suggests the oregano only if you\u00a0are using arugula, and not basil)<\/li>\n<li>there was some superb bread, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.seriouseats.com\/2012\/08\/good-bread-maison-kayser-upper-east-side.html\">baguette monge, from Maison Kayser<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the wine with the antipasto (although, in fact, there was\u00a0not to be\u00a0any pasta) was a New Mexico (Sierra County) sparkling, <a href=\"http:\/\/gruetwinery.com\/blanc-de-noirs\">Gruet Blanc de Noirs\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/black_sea_bass_carrots_celery_kale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6854\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/black_sea_bass_carrots_celery_kale.jpg\" alt=\"black_sea_bass_carrots_celery_kale\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>second course<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two 7-ounce sea bass fillets from American Seafood Company, dipped in a mixture of an egg from Millport Dairy\u00a0whipped with chopped parsley from Eataly, the fish then dredged in seasoned flour,\u00a0saut\u00e9ed for a couple\u00a0minutes\u00a0in a mixture of butter and olive oil, first skin side down, turned, cooked for a total of only a few minutes, or until the fish was cooked through (the time will vary with the size of the fillets and the height of the flame), removed from the pan and sprinkled with a bit of local lemon\/line from Fantastic Gardens of Long Island, and dressed with the pan juices which had been mixed with more parsley after the fillets had been removed<\/li>\n<li>tiny white carrots\u00a0from Rogowski Farm, a few &#8216;sticks&#8217; of celery heart from Eataly,\u00a0and some thyme branches, also from Eataly,\u00a0tossed together with\u00a0olive oil, salt, and pepper, cooked in a small Pampered Chef pan at 400\u00ba until tender, some of the celery leaves added near the end and stirred in (the\u00a0total\u00a0time will depend on the size of the vegetables; these only took about 10 or 15 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>a small amount of curly green winter kale from Tamarack Hollow Farm,\u00a0wilted in olive oil in which\u00a0one clove of garlic from Norwich Meadows Farm, halved, had been cooked until it had begun\u00a0to brown, finished with salt, pepper, and a drizzle of olive oil<\/li>\n<li>the wine with the fish was a French (Bordeaux) white, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polanerselections.com\/wine\/chateau-darveyres-bordeaux-blanc\">Ch\u00e2teau d&#8217;Arveyres Bordeaux Blanc 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the music throughout was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=842606\">Jaap van Zweden conducting the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Anton Bruckner&#8217;s Symphony No. 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>first course &nbsp; 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