{"id":97,"date":"2018-04-03T21:03:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/spring-dinner-for-one\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T04:03:56","slug":"spring-dinner-for-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/spring-dinner-for-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring dinner for one"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GameGiven the differences in my schedule and handsome’s, I eat alone a few times a week. As a cook, this is a challenge as it is for anyone that cooks for one. Either too much effort or too much product makes it a challenge.<\/p>\n

This meal is a simple one. Leftover green garlic and asparagus from our Sunday meal, made a lovely green garlic confit and a Spring Soup, if you will.<\/p>\n

The Cornish game hen, was roasted til lightly cooked and then halved and frozen. I pulled it out of the freezer this morning to thaw in the fridge and then popped in the overnight for a final roast too give crispy skin and heat throughout. At the last minute a slice of homemade Amish loaf adorned the plate.<\/p>\n

A nice glass of 2015 California Pinot Noir and the evening was well made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given the differences in my schedule and handsome’s, I eat alone a few times a week. As a cook, this is a challenge as it is for anyone that cooks for one. Either too much effort or too much product makes it a challenge. This meal is a simple one. Leftover green garlic and asparagus … Continue reading “Spring dinner for one”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9fbjV-1z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}