{"id":95,"date":"2014-06-12T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2014-06-12T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:32:06","slug":"greener-pastures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Greener Pastures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tender and delicious (left). Farmer (right).<\/em><\/p>\n

Great Dan. While you were braving Melbourne’s winter to barbeque\/smoke fish, I was busy making a lamb rag\u00f9 and home-made Pappardelle in 37-degree heat!<\/p>\n

At least the weather came to the party and I got a storm when I was dishing up, so with the air-conditioning cranked up it seemed an appropriately wintery night for a hearty slow-cooked meal and a glass of red.<\/p>\n

Greener grass; it’s a great motivation, no?<\/p>\n

Oh, and if you’re American, that’s 99-degrees F. Please, get a more sensible system \u2013 0-degrees for freezing water and 100-degrees for boiling it makes comprehending it so easy. Your option is 32-degrees and 212? Really?<\/p>\n

The lamb was sort-of made up, but something like this: Brown lamb pieces in a heavy cast-iron pot, set aside. Add onion and pancetta and cook until the onion starts to colour. Deglaze the pan with a glass of wine, add stock, tomato paste, carrot and a bay leaf or two and simmer for three hours or so.<\/p>\n

The pasta’s about the opposite in terms of cooking time. Mix about 1.5 cups of flour with two eggs and a generous pinch of salt. Knead and set aside for 30 mins. Run it through the pasta machine and cut into wide strips. Cook in boiling water for about 2 minutes.<\/p>\n

There’s no substitute for fresh pasta like this. I don’t have anything against dried, but in this case the firmness of the fresh pasta was perfect for the fall-apart rag\u00f9. A little good quality parmesan cheese across the top and you’re away.<\/p>\n

I’m almost embarrassed to say it, but we drank a bottle of Jacob’s Creek cab sav<\/a> with it. In my defence, I had to buy it at the supermarket, and it was the Reserve variety, which is much better than the usual stuff. And it cost US$25, which is more than enough for a night at home, and at the low-end for a drinkable wine in these parts. Sigh.<\/p>\n

My winter didn’t last long though. The next day I made omelettes stuffed with fresh crab, coriander and a chilli-jam dressing. I can’t get over the fact that I can get the crab meat, freshly-cooked and picked, from the supermarket for less than the price of lamb.<\/p>\n

And really, when the temperature is in the high thirties, who wants a heavy winter meal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Tender and delicious (left). Farmer (right). Great Dan. While you were braving Melbourne’s winter to barbeque\/smoke fish, I was busy making a lamb rag\u00f9 and home-made Pappardelle in 37-degree heat! At least the weather came to the party and I got a storm when I was dishing up, so with the air-conditioning cranked up … Continue reading Greener Pastures<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[90,91,88,89],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-cooking","tag-home-made-pasta","tag-jacobs-creek","tag-lamb","tag-ragu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}