{"id":1657,"date":"2011-07-28T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2011-07-28T20:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T00:06:27","slug":"heavenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said this about a lot of things, but this time I mean it!  This is what you get eat in heaven every day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1658\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN1781.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN1781-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN1781\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN1781-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN1781.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Heavenly Plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What do we have here?  Starting with the fish&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bluegill fillets that Gary Pippenger gave us.  What&#8217;s the best fish in the world?  Bluegill, that someone else has cleaned and given to you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then going clockwise&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sweet and tangy cole slaw.  Made from a cabbage I got last Saturday at the Columbia City Farmer&#8217;s Market.  At 5 days old it&#8217;s at that perfect point of ripeness just before it starts getting soft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As if it couldn&#8217;t get any better, then we have&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tomatoes fresh from our garden.  The very first slicers of the year.  Our tomato season will last 2 months at the best.  It is all the better for being so brief.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Continuing clockwise we have&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hush puppies made from corn meal I ground from heirloom white open-pollinated corn that I grew from seed given to me by Sam Taulbee.  If you&#8217;ve had hush puppies at a chain restaurant you know them as leaden balls of greasy cornmeal.  These are ethereally light clouds of creamy corn batter surrounded by a crunchy layer of fried batter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A few thin slices of the first banana peppers from our garden.  They make a nice spicy crunch with a bite of fish or hush puppy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We even had a couple of hush puppies left over for Spenser and Owen (the Wonder Dogs.)  They certainly enjoyed them, but they had little hushing effect.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, I fried the fish and hush puppies on our<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=502\"> Jay Rosswurm Signature Big Stone Cooking Area.<\/a>  So all the mess is outside and not in the kitchen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said this about a lot of things, but this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}