{"id":35,"date":"2009-12-22T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2018-06-19T22:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:14:58","slug":"a-night-of-two-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/a-night-of-two-miracles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night of Two Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_4nvDhgOwEek\/SzJILI0xg3I\/AAAAAAAAAfo\/U92iLRDTY2w\/s1600-h\/Menorah.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418472657864721266\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_4nvDhgOwEek\/SzJILI0xg3I\/AAAAAAAAAfo\/U92iLRDTY2w\/s320\/Menorah.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> Acclaimed New York chef <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28350489\/ns\/today-today_holiday_guide\/\">Mark Bittman<\/a> presented a marvelous alternative to potato latkes &#8211; a potato nik. The grated potatoes, onion and egg mixture simply fill a large non-stick pan (with 1\/8&#8243; of healthy safflower oil), cook for 15 minutes, flip and voila &#8211; done! The customary sour cream accompaniment met a new partner this evening. Instead of apple sauce, I made a persimmon sauce. My recipe creation included persimmons, Muscat raisins (thanks to Tory Farms), a cinnamon stick, honey and lemon.OMG &#8211; delicious, Miracle #1! Filet Mignon and artichokes, grilled stovetop, completed the entree. A velvety Alexander Valley<a href=\"http:\/\/silveroak.com\/\"> Silver Oak<\/a> Cabernet Sauvignon on this second night of Chanukah was Miracle #2!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_4nvDhgOwEek\/SzJHVJt5AUI\/AAAAAAAAAfg\/Kb_V2rSwYyg\/s320\/Potato+Nik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed New York chef Mark Bittman presented a marvelous alternative to potato latkes &#8211; a potato nik. The grated potatoes, onion and egg mixture simply fill a large non-stick pan (with 1\/8&#8243; of healthy safflower oil), cook for 15 minutes, flip and voila &#8211; done! The customary sour cream accompaniment met a new partner this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/a-night-of-two-miracles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Night of Two Miracles&#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":[48,76],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-mark-bittman","tag-silver-oak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"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! -->