{"id":3689,"date":"2013-11-10T23:51:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2013-11-10T23:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:51:36","slug":"making-velvet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/making-velvet\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Velvet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3702\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/10\/making-velvet\/wsj-cauliflower-soup-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3702\" title=\"WSJ Cauliflower soup\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WSJ-Cauliflower-soup2-e1384044850879-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WSJ-Cauliflower-soup2-e1384044850879-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WSJ-Cauliflower-soup2-e1384044850879.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Witness the transformation of an alien plant into the consistency of velvet as ChezHelvetica presents\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424127887323595004579066991628388008\" target=\"_blank\">Cauliflower Soup<\/a>,\u00a0made with Orange (or &#8220;Cheddar&#8221;) Cauliflower.\u00a0Discovered in Canada in 1970, the mutant vegetable was shipped to Cornell University where agricultural scientists crossbred it with white varieties.\u00a0The hue comes from extra beta-carotene naturally stored in its florets, giving it 25 percent more Vitamin A than the white. Saut\u00e9ed Onions and Toasted Ground Coriander (with their wonderful aromas) are pureed with the Cauliflower and Chicken Stock, then a swirl of Cr\u00e8me Fra\u00eeche adds the final touch. Delicious Blue Cheese and Onion Foccacia from the Healdsburg Bakery and Acacia Carneros Chardonnay complete the meal. As velvet has been associated with royalty, this meal would be deemed equally splendid!<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3751\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/10\/making-velvet\/cauliflower-orange\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3751\" title=\"Cauliflower-orange\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cauliflower-orange-e1384047992343-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witness the transformation of an alien plant into the consistency of velvet as ChezHelvetica presents\u00a0Cauliflower Soup,\u00a0made with Orange (or &#8220;Cheddar&#8221;) Cauliflower.\u00a0Discovered in Canada in 1970, the mutant vegetable was shipped to Cornell University where agricultural scientists crossbred it with white varieties.\u00a0The hue comes from extra beta-carotene naturally stored in its florets, giving it 25 percent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/making-velvet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Velvet&#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":[115,244],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-acacia","tag-healdsburg-bakery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","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=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":93,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"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! -->