{"id":7307,"date":"2016-03-05T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2016-03-05T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T07:06:07","slug":"steamed-mussels-with-lovage-wine-tomatoes-shallot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=7307","title":{"rendered":"steamed mussels with lovage, wine, tomatoes, shallot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mussels_steamed_lovage_tomatoes.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7309\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mussels_steamed_lovage_tomatoes.jpg\" alt=\"mussels_steamed_lovage_tomatoes\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>an extraordinary dish, also\u00a0one of the simplest, and least expensive to make<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I came across this recipe some time ago, and have enjoyed it a number of times since. \u00a0I found it <a href=\"http:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/8798-steamed-mussels-with-lovage\">in the New York Times<\/a>, where it was described as adapted by Sara Dickerman from\u00a0&#8220;The Herbal Kitchen,&#8221; by Jerry Traunfeld. \u00a0The biggest challenge for most home cooks may be locating the fresh lovage, but it&#8217;s worth it, wherever that hunt\u00a0may take you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a brilliant formula, and extraordinarily delicious.<\/p>\n<p>The easy part: There&#8217;s very little preparation necessary for any of the (few) ingredients, and everything goes into the pot at once, after which dinner is ready in little over 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two pounds of mussels purchased that day in the Union Square Greenmarket from Pura Vida Seafood, lightly-scrubbed and de-bearded where necessary, then combined\u00a0in\u00a0a large heavy enameled cast iron pot with\u00a0two cups of Backyard Farms Maine \u2018cocktail tomatoes\u2019 from Whole Foods, halved, half of a cup of good white wine (a South African, specifically, Western Cape\/Constantia, white, Klein Steenberg Sauvignon Blanc 2015 from our local shop, Phillippe Wines), a few tablespoons of chopped shallot from John D. Madura Farm, three tablespoons of rich\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/kerrygoldusa.com\/products?category=2\">Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter<\/a>\u2018, a generous\u00a0amount of freshly-ground black pepper, and 2 or 3 tablespoons of\u00a0coarsely-chopped lovage from Two Guys from Woodbridge, everything\u00a0steamed over high heat for a few\u00a0minutes, served in shallow bowls with a sprinkling of more chopped lovage, accompanied by\u00a0an\u00a0Eric Kayser &#8216;baguette monge&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>the table wine was a Portuguese (Bairrada) white,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filipapato.net\/vinhos\/show.aspx?idioma=pt&amp;idcont=23&amp;title=fp-bical-arinto\">FP Bical &amp; Arinto\u00a0Vinho Branco<\/a>,\u00a0a\u00a02013, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelseawinevault.com\/fp-by-filipa-pato-vinho-branco-bical-arinto-portugal-2014\">from Chelsea Wine Vault<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the music was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=170026\">Mozart, &#8216;Le Nozze Di Figaro&#8217;, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the\u00a0Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra<\/a>, with\u00a0Dorothea R\u00f6schmann, Anna Netrebko, Ildebrando D&#8217;Arcangelo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an extraordinary dish, also\u00a0one of the simplest, and least expensive to make &nbsp; I came across this recipe some time ago, and have enjoyed it a number of times since. \u00a0I found it in the New York Times, where it was described as adapted by Sara Dickerman from\u00a0&#8220;The Herbal Kitchen,&#8221; by Jerry Traunfeld. \u00a0The biggest &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-7307","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\/7307","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=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}