{"id":3258,"date":"2018-11-15T00:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T00:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2018-11-15T00:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T00:56:52","slug":"the-small-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2018\/11\/15\/the-small-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The small things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I&#8217;m back home at 21:30, that&#8217;s the earliest I got home in quite some time. Though it&#8217;s only Wednesday our fridge is almost empty already: obviously I didn&#8217;t shop enough this weekend in the countryside. Yet I have a last one of these late summer giant and very ripe tomatoes, so I decided to make some tagliatelle with a tomato base sauce, shimeji and sage. And because it is early and A. won&#8217;t be back until the usual 22:00 I can work a few details: adding a carrot cut in small dice to the sauce to add more flavor, peeling the tomato to only have the creamy and juicy parts, cooking at low heat for a longer time to get the sage to perfume the sauce more profoundly. All these small things that I have a tendency to skip and that actually are important to obtain a better result in the plate and for the palate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The little cubes of carrots and the mushrooms and the sage goes very well together I find. But to eat them with pasta I also find that the carrots shouldn&#8217;t take the first place, and therefore should be cut in tiny cubes. The sage thinly cut add a nice touch, but is better when the vegetables are slowly cooked until they almost caramelized, and then are deglazed in the final stage with a fragrant olive oil. Regarding tomato, there is indeed nothing more annoying than cooking tomatoes and ending up with small rolls of skin half attached or floating in a tomato sauce in particular. And tonight peeling the tomato had the bitter taste of sadness because I got used to do it while I was cooking with my friend K. when we visited her and her husband in the Tsunan mountains in Niigata, and this morning we just learned that S. has past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_8001.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3260\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_8001.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_8001-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_8001-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_8001-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_8001-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_8001-1400x1400.jpg 1400w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_8001-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I&#8217;m back home at 21:30, that&#8217;s the earliest I got home in quite some time. Though it&#8217;s only Wednesday our fridge is almost empty already: obviously I didn&#8217;t shop enough this weekend in the countryside. Yet I have a last one of these late summer giant and very ripe tomatoes, so I decided to&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2018\/11\/15\/the-small-things\/#more-3258\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[359,364],"tags":[3,333,34,22,21,318,283,12,354,783,88,40,16],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}