{"id":336,"date":"2010-06-04T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2010-06-04T05:03:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T05:03:02","slug":"a-salute-to-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/a-salute-to-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Salute to Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-342\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/a-salute-to-memorial-day\/memdaytable\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-342\" title=\"MemDayTable\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MemDayTable-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MemDayTable-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MemDayTable.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Our Memorial Day celebration embraced both the traditional significance of the day in acknowledging war veterans (in this case, the folded flag holding bullets fired at my father&#8217;s funeral) and the always fun summer barbecue with friends.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realsimple.com\" target=\"_blank\">Real Simple Magazine&#8217;<\/a>s June feature on finger-licking fare inspired me to head to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinsunfarms.com\" target=\"_blank\">Marin Sun Farms<\/a> at the Ferry Plaza Farmer&#8217;s Market where I purchased baby back ribs. Using the classic barbecue sauce recipe in this issue, it was my first foray into making barbecue sauce. I tweaked it by adding some Worcestershire sauce.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-349\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/a-salute-to-memorial-day\/memdayflag-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-349\" title=\"MemDayFlag\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MemDayFlag4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A Caesar Salad recipe from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/...\/caesar-salad-12730\" target=\"_blank\">Epicurious<\/a> provided the perfect combination of delicate hearts of romaine (from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.starroutefarms.com\" target=\"_blank\">Star Route Farms<\/a>) and savory garlic croutons, a wonderful accompaniment to sweet corn. Vanilla ice cream with honey-poached nectarines and toasted coconut, crowned by a strawberry, was the dessert of choice, also adapted from Real Simple. Then there was the wine \u00a0brought by our friends from their well-stocked cellar &#8230;. all I can remember now is that it was wonderful. And there was a lot!<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-358\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/a-salute-to-memorial-day\/memdayribs-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-358\" title=\"MemDayRibs\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MemDayRibs4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<th><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-359\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/a-salute-to-memorial-day\/memdaysalad-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-359\" title=\"MemDaySalad\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MemDaySalad1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<th><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-360\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/a-salute-to-memorial-day\/memdaysundae-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-360\" title=\"MemDaySundae\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MemDaySundae4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Memorial Day celebration embraced both the traditional significance of the day in acknowledging war veterans (in this case, the folded flag holding bullets fired at my father&#8217;s funeral) and the always fun summer barbecue with friends.\u00a0Real Simple Magazine&#8217;s June feature on finger-licking fare inspired me to head to Marin Sun Farms at the Ferry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/a-salute-to-memorial-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Salute to Memorial Day&#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":[10,33,55,141,142],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-epicurious","tag-ferry-plaza-farmers-market","tag-marin-sun-farms","tag-real-simple","tag-star-route-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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