{"id":1904,"date":"2013-03-06T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2013-03-06T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:00:54","slug":"the-magic-of-abcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/the-magic-of-abcs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of ABCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1908\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/the-magic-of-abcs\/acornasparagus-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1908\" title=\"Acorn&amp;Asparagus\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AcornAsparagus1-e1362599676493-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AcornAsparagus1-e1362599676493-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AcornAsparagus1-e1362599676493.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>As Tony Mendez transformed U.S. diplomats into a Canadian film crew, ChezHelvetica elevated the ABCs to a new plateau with untried recipes for<strong> A<\/strong>corn Squash, <strong>A<\/strong>sparagus,<strong> B<\/strong>eans and <strong>C<\/strong>auliflower. Winter met spring as the cold weather outside saw the first of the season&#8217;s asparagus, and warmth replaced chill with soothing soup and the fragrance of coriander. For a dinner to be ready after &#8220;<strong>Argo<\/strong>&#8220;, <a href=\"http:\/\/caloriecount.about.com\/roasted-cauliflower-soup-garbanzo-beans-recipe-r1277317\" target=\"_blank\">Cauliflower Soup with Garbanzo Beans<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/homecooking.about.com\/od\/vegetablerecipes\/r\/blv148.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Acorn Squash Rings with Asparagus<\/a> filled our bill. The Farmers&#8217; Markets at the VAMC and Ferry Plaza, along with Trader Joe&#8217;s, yielded the beautiful bounty for this dinner. A luscious walnut sauce dressed the squash and asparagus as Alma Chardonnay from Chile enlivened us. TJs Pecan Pie Ice Cream was the final credit of the evening. Applause!<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1925\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/the-magic-of-abcs\/cauliflowergarbanzo-soup\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1925\" title=\"Cauliflower&amp;Garbanzo soup\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CauliflowerGarbanzo-soup-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tony Mendez transformed U.S. diplomats into a Canadian film crew, ChezHelvetica elevated the ABCs to a new plateau with untried recipes for Acorn Squash, Asparagus, Beans and Cauliflower. Winter met spring as the cold weather outside saw the first of the season&#8217;s asparagus, and warmth replaced chill with soothing soup and the fragrance of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/the-magic-of-abcs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Magic of ABCs&#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":[33,6,209],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-ferry-plaza-farmers-market","tag-trader-joes","tag-vamc-farmers-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","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=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"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! -->