{"id":290,"date":"2006-09-08T12:55:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T12:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=290"},"modified":"2006-09-08T12:55:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T12:55:48","slug":"so_much_on_my_p-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/so_much_on_my_p-3\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much On My Plate &#8211; Well-Rounded Ingredients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/tablegrapes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tablegrapes\" height=\"232\" alt=\"Tablegrapes\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/tablegrapes.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> This week on So Much On My Plate, well-rounded ingredients, including table grapes, cherry tomatoes and beets!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I used BC Coronation Grapes to make two versions of Grape Foccacia.&nbsp; These grapes are practically seedless, a sweet inside with a slightly sour skin that makes for a perfect balance.&nbsp; Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grapegrowers.bc.ca\/recipes.shtml\">here<\/a> to go to the British Columbia Grape Growers Association website recipe homepage, where you can find the recipe for the focaccia.&nbsp; I also did a savoury version where I used olive oil, coarse salt and chopped rosemary along with the grapes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEETS:&nbsp; <\/strong>Look at your local farmers&#8217; markets for white and Chioggia beets.&nbsp; The Chioggias have beautiful stripes inside them and along with the white beets, make a stunning salad platter.&nbsp; Wrap them in foil and roast them whole at 400F in your oven or on indirect heat on your barbecue.&nbsp; When you can pierce them easily with a skewer, remove from heat, let cool, then peel and slice.&nbsp; Arrange in one layer on a plate and drizzle with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper and toasted cumin seeds for an extra punch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHERRY TOMATO SOUP:&nbsp; <\/strong>I take a couple of pounds of cherry tomatoes and put them in a large roasting pan.&nbsp; Drizzle with olive oil, salt and and pepper, and then nestle in some peeled whole cloves of garlic and a few branches of fresh rosemary and thyme.&nbsp; Cover with foil and roast at 400F until the tomatoes have burst their skins and have broken down.&nbsp; Remove the branches of herbs and pour the whole mess into your food processor.&nbsp; Puree and then pass everything through a sieve to remove the seeds and skins.&nbsp; Add a little chicken stock if it seems to thick.&nbsp; Serve hot, at room temperature or even chilled!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on So Much On My Plate, well-rounded ingredients, including table grapes, cherry tomatoes and beets!&nbsp; I used BC Coronation Grapes to make two versions of Grape Foccacia.&nbsp; These grapes are practically seedless, a sweet inside with a slightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/so_much_on_my_p-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-so-much-on-my-plate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}