{"id":2250,"date":"2011-07-19T19:36:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2011-07-21T03:20:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T08:20:57","slug":"in-the-wilds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/in-the-wilds\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Wilds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WineSantokuDSC_3446.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2254\" title=\"WineSantokuDSC_3446\" src=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WineSantokuDSC_3446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WineSantokuDSC_3446.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WineSantokuDSC_3446-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WineSantokuDSC_3446-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 50px;\">Open a cheap merlot<br \/>\nand fill an expensive glass<br \/>\nbut only partway<br \/>\nif you just let it breathe<br \/>\nit will come into its own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">Put the ten inch saut\u00e9 on<br \/>\nmedium high and add<br \/>\na pat of butter<br \/>\nin three minutes it foams<br \/>\na little, but just enough.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">Enough time to spread kosher salt<br \/>\nand\u00a0 a generous grinding<br \/>\nof mixed peppercorns<br \/>\nover the \u00a0twelve ounce prime rib<br \/>\nthree quarters of an inch thick<br \/>\nand gently marbled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">Five minutes on the first side<br \/>\nNo, it&#8217;s not too long<br \/>\nthe pan is still coming up to heat.<br \/>\nAnd you can make the salad;<br \/>\nshake out a bag of mixed greens<br \/>\ninto the shallow bowl<br \/>\nyou already rubbed down<br \/>\nwith a sliced clove of garlic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">Slice\u00a0 a mushroom<br \/>\nwith the santoku<br \/>\nbut add it to the saut\u00e9<br \/>\nat the last minute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">Add the olives<br \/>\ngreen cracked nafplion<br \/>\nsoft pitted calamatas<br \/>\na drizzle of olive oil and<br \/>\na miserly application of<br \/>\nbalsamic vinegar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">Flip the steak now<br \/>\nit only needs three minutes more<br \/>\nwhile you season the salad<br \/>\nwith a pinch of salt<br \/>\na grind of pepper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">Take the steak off<br \/>\nwhen the timer goes<br \/>\nand cut into it<br \/>\nto appraise the<br \/>\nhot red perfection<br \/>\nbetween seared borders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">Tragic really<br \/>\nthat my wife<br \/>\nis away<br \/>\nand I have to fend<br \/>\nfor myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open a cheap merlot and fill an expensive glass but only partway if you just let it breathe it will come into its own. Put the ten inch saut\u00e9 on medium high and add a pat of butter in three minutes it foams a little, but just enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}