{"id":1271,"date":"2012-03-22T00:46:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2012-03-22T00:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:46:30","slug":"a-candlelit-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/a-candlelit-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Candlelit Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1273\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/22\/a-candlelit-lunch\/candlelitlunch-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1273\" title=\"CandlelitLunch\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CandlelitLunch1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CandlelitLunch1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CandlelitLunch1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s a weekday. It&#8217;s lunchtime. Outside, it&#8217;s dark, cloudy and cold. Like magic, the burst of candlelight, vivid colors and warm food transform the day. Grilled stovetop, whole wheat and corn tortillas, avocado, baby spinach, cheddar cheese and salsa (embellished with Campari tomatoes) become Veggie Burritos. A Green Bean Salad (Food Network chef\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/green-bean-salad-recipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ellie Krieger&#8217;s recipe<\/a>)\u00a0accompanies our entree. Trimmed and steamed green beans,\u00a0fragrant toasted walnuts, vibrant parsley and a mustard vinaigrette burst with flavor. A happy union. BTW &#8211; the matchbook used to light the candles reads &#8220;Kathy &amp; Freddy June 5, 1981&#8221;. More than 30 years later, the matches still ignite immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a weekday. It&#8217;s lunchtime. Outside, it&#8217;s dark, cloudy and cold. Like magic, the burst of candlelight, vivid colors and warm food transform the day. Grilled stovetop, whole wheat and corn tortillas, avocado, baby spinach, cheddar cheese and salsa (embellished with Campari tomatoes) become Veggie Burritos. A Green Bean Salad (Food Network chef\u00a0Ellie Krieger&#8217;s recipe)\u00a0accompanies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/a-candlelit-lunch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Candlelit Lunch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[191,94],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-ellie-krieger","tag-food-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->