{"id":7068,"date":"2016-02-14T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2016-02-14T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:33:20","slug":"bacon-eggs-thyme-tomatoes-oregano-micro-kale-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=7068","title":{"rendered":"bacon, eggs, thyme, tomatoes, oregano, micro kale, toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bacon_eggs_tomato_micro_kale.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7073\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7073\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bacon_eggs_tomato_micro_kale.jpg\" alt=\"bacon_eggs_tomato_micro_kale\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was Valentine&#8217;s day, so I included a little deep\u00a0red on the side.<\/p>\n<p>This was\u00a0our breakfast-but-also-lunch on this rather sweet holiday. \u00a0We don&#8217;t have bacon and eggs every Sunday, and tomatoes are rarely\u00a0a part of it when we do, but this fast-breaker was put onto the table even later in the day than usual, and therefore it\u00a0was lunch as well as breakfast. \u00a0I also thought the bright red fruit\u00a0would be a somewhat electric reminder of the holiday just beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line was that I think tomatoes and\u00a0eggs are just\u00a0about as natural a pairing as bacon and eggs, and including all three in an early afternoon meal made it something of\u00a0a\u00a0feast betimes.<\/p>\n<p>Once I had sat down and was well into its enjoyment, I thought to myself, and told Barry, I felt it\u00a0was one of those meals you want to go on, and on. I suspect every element of it had addictive properties.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the eggs, topped with chopped thyme from Foragers Market, Maldon salt, and good telicherry pepper, freshly ground, were from Millport Dairy Farm, as was the double-thick smoked bacon in whose residual fat they were fried; the tomatoes were Backyard Farms Maine \u2018cocktail tomatoes\u2019 from Whole Foods, slow-roasted with garlic from Keith&#8217;s Farm and abundant pungent dried Italian oregano from Buon Italia, finished with chopped parsley from Eataly; the kale micro greens, undressed, were from Lucky Dog Organic Farm; the toast was from three different breads, a small amount of each: the heels of one days-old\u00a0sourdough loaf\u00a0from Rock Hill Bakery and a\u00a0two-day-old semolina loaf from Eataly, and\u00a0a fresh Bien Cuit baguette from Forager&#8217;s Market baked, well, today<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Valentine&#8217;s day, so I included a little deep\u00a0red on the side. This was\u00a0our breakfast-but-also-lunch on this rather sweet holiday. \u00a0We don&#8217;t have bacon and eggs every Sunday, and tomatoes are rarely\u00a0a part of it when we do, but this fast-breaker was put onto the table even later in the day than usual, and &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-7068","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\/7068","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=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}