{"id":9557,"date":"2016-09-10T01:12:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T01:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2016-09-10T01:12:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T01:12:44","slug":"smoked-trout-dill-mayonaise-potato-and-cucumber-salads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=9557","title":{"rendered":"smoked trout, dill mayonaise; potato and cucumber salads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9559\" src=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smoked_trout_potato_cucumber.jpg\" alt=\"smoked_trout_potato_cucumber\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been collecting a few rieslings over the last months, but hadn&#8217;t had\u00a0entr\u00e9es suitable for this special wine.\u00a0This past week\u00a0I decided it was time, so I thought of putting together\u00a0a simple meal of trout accompanied by\u00a0a couple of\u00a0more-or-less-Germanic vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>I was\u00a0aiming for fresh whole trout, but this past\u00a0Wednesday, the only day on which Dave Harris and his <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.seriouseats.com\/2010\/09\/market-scene-profiles-max-creek-hatchery.html\">Max Creek Hatchery<\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0in Union Square,\u00a0there was, literally, <em>a run on the market<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemoonfish.com\/\">Blue Moon<\/a>, the\u00a0other fish seller who would normally have also been there that day, had to cancel because <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Hermine\">Hermine<\/a>\u00a0had been hanging around, stirring up the waters off eastern Long Island, making it too dangerous for a\u00a0boat to go out the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Dave mostly doesn&#8217;t have to\u00a0think about hurricanes or cyclones (he&#8217;s located very much inland, far west of Albany). He and his truck were there all set up, but not surprisingly, the fresh trout went fast. He\u00a0told me he hadn&#8217;t known that he would be the only game in town that day, or he would have brought more stock down from the north. When I got there, a little past noon, there were no more fresh trout, but he still had some of the smoked, and that&#8217;s what I built that night&#8217;s meal around.<\/p>\n<p>The model was\u00a0pretty German, but the elements were almost entirely local. This time &#8216;local&#8217;\u00a0included the wine as well. The Treleaven dry riesling wasn&#8217;t just a New York state wine, but one I had purchased only a mile away, in the Union Square Greenmarket, from which almost everything else in this meal was assembled.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>three quarters of a pound of a single smoked trout from Max Creek Hatchery, skinned, boned, divided, one side placed on each of 2 plates, served with a mix of a really good prepared mayonaise, <a href=\"https:\/\/sirkensingtons.com\/\">Sir Kensington&#8217;s<\/a>, plain, <a href=\"https:\/\/sirkensingtons.com\/assets\/offerings\/cl_Mayo-b1f39c780e31bf6fa5fed119b60e89eb.png\">Classic Mayonnaise<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/sirkensingtons.com\/story\">made by ex-Brown students, with headquarters in SoHo<\/a>), lemon zest and lemon juice, and chopped fresh dill from\u00a0Willow Wisp Farm<\/li>\n<li>the potato salad was about as\u00a0simple as I could imagine preparing, using\u00a012 ounces of small red new potatoes from Norwich Meadows Farm, boiled, thinly-sliced (skins left on), mixed, while\u00a0still warm, with a couple tablespoons of good red wine (Chianti) vinegar into which a generous pinch of sugar had first been stirred and diluted, followed by\u00a02 thinly-sliced\u00a0small red pearl onions from Paffenroth Farms, the mix seasoned with salt and pepper, cooled to room temperature, finished with a little olive oil,\u00a0chopped parsley, and lovage, both from Keith&#8217;s Farm<\/li>\n<li>the cucumber salad was also pretty plain, by my normal standards, including no onion, only thinly-sliced cucumbers from Norwich Meadows Farm, salt, white wine (Langhe) vinegar (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acetodibarolo.it\/aceto-di-barolo-products.htm\">Cesare Giaccone\u00a0aceto di vino bianco)<\/a>, water, sugar, a little chopped garlic, and dried cumin seed (in lieu of the dill seed I didn&#8217;t have), chilled for more than an hour<\/li>\n<li>fourteen of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/2016\/07\/07\/mackerel-sicilian-caper-tomato-salsa-okra-saute-with-chili\/\">The Best Cherry Tomatoes<\/a>&#8216; from Stokes Farm, rolled in a little good Campania olive oil, Malson salt, and freshly-ground pepper, sprinkled with a bit of torn basil<\/li>\n<li>the wine was a New York (Cayuga Lake) white, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.treleavenwines.com\/product\/Dry-Riesling-2013\">Treleaven Dry Riesling 2013<\/a>, from King Ferry Winery, via the winemakers&#8217; stall in the Union Square Greenmarket<\/li>\n<li>the music was German,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tempestadimare.org\/shop\/buy-now\/\">Johann Friedrich Fasch, Orchestral Works, Vol. 1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been collecting a few rieslings over the last months, but hadn&#8217;t had\u00a0entr\u00e9es suitable for this special wine.\u00a0This past week\u00a0I decided it was time, so I thought of putting together\u00a0a simple meal of trout accompanied by\u00a0a couple of\u00a0more-or-less-Germanic vegetables. I was\u00a0aiming for fresh whole trout, but this past\u00a0Wednesday, the only day on which Dave Harris &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-9557","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\/9557","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=9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}