{"id":6541,"date":"2009-06-22T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2009-06-22T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T22:30:27","slug":"june-22nd-2009-pasta-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/06\/june-22nd-2009-pasta-light\/","title":{"rendered":"June 22nd, 2009: Pasta light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys!\u00a0 Scott was having leftovers for dinner this evening and I needed something else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott: <\/strong>Why can&#8217;t you have chicken?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Because I had chicken yesterday and I don&#8217;t feel like chicken today.<\/p>\n<p>Simple really. :p\u00a0 I had some gorgeous chard just waiting to be used up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_chard.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6542\" title=\"Swiss Chard \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_chard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Swiss Chard \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_chard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_chard.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, is this just not beautiful?\u00a0 I love chard!\u00a0 Greens are a new experience for me and I can&#8217;t get enough of them.\u00a0 Greens were not something I grew up around.\u00a0 Spinach was the only &#8220;green&#8221; to be had and boy were we missing out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_pasta.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6545\" title=\"Pasta with veggies \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_pasta-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pasta with veggies \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_pasta-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_pasta.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided on a pasta dish with some veggies thrown in.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red onion<\/li>\n<li>Chard<\/li>\n<li>Carrot<\/li>\n<li>Zucchini<\/li>\n<li>Roasted asparagus and green beans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I made greenbeans yesterday, I blanched the whole batch but only roasted half.\u00a0 Today I roasted the other half to go into the pasta dish. I pulled out some asparagus that needed used up and tossed that in as well.\u00a0 A splash of chicken stock and my new favorite condiment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_hotsauce.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6544\" title=\"Cholula Hotsauce\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_hotsauce-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cholula Hotsauce\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_hotsauce-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_hotsauce.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;made up the &#8220;sauce&#8221; for the dish.\u00a0 I love this hot sauce!\u00a0 I&#8217;m also totally new to spicy things because in the past I never liked spicy hot dishes.\u00a0 It was too aggressive for my taste and made my tongue hurt!\u00a0 Now I have a bit more tolerance but I still don&#8217;t care for hot sauce.\u00a0 Tabasco and Frank&#8217;s taste very chemical and antiseptic for me.\u00a0 But this tastes awesome!\u00a0 It&#8217;s like taco sauce!\u00a0 It is spicy but you can tell there are seasonings and spices in there as well.\u00a0 Love it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_potatoes.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6546\" title=\"Roasted potatoes \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_potatoes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Roasted potatoes \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_potatoes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_potatoes.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What was true for chicken, was not true for roasted potatoes.\u00a0 MMMM, I snagged a few off Scott&#8217;s plate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6543\" title=\"Pasta and veggies \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pasta and veggies \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ohc-06-22-09_dinner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I topped the pasta dish with some shredded asiago and shaved parm.\u00a0 YUM!\u00a0 This dish was fantastic and I&#8217;m thankful there are leftovers for tomorrow. :p<\/p>\n<p>Just an FYI, my posts may seem a little sporadic this week.\u00a0 We are attending a <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Stick Fighting'>SF<\/abbr> seminar on Friday and Saturday which our school is hosting.\u00a0 We&#8217;re helping out as well as attending and so I have some things I need to get done for that before Friday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try to keep on schedule but if things seem wonky, that&#8217;s why! <img src='\/images\/biggrin.gif' alt=':D' \/><\/p>\n<p>Round two of testing tonight as well!\u00a0 Not for us, but for some other levels. Might be another late night when we get back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys!\u00a0 Scott was having leftovers for dinner this evening and I needed something else. Scott: Why can&#8217;t you have chicken? Me: Because I had chicken yesterday and I don&#8217;t feel like chicken today. Simple really. :p\u00a0 I had some gorgeous chard just waiting to be used up. Seriously, is this just not beautiful?\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-1Hv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}