{"id":2302,"date":"2015-10-05T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T22:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2025-07-06T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T15:24:18","slug":"petits-pois-a-la-francaise-w-purslane-shiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/petits-pois-a-la-francaise-w-purslane-shiso\/","title":{"rendered":"Petits pois \u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise w Purslane &#038; Shiso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young, I hadn\u2019t the faintest notion of purslane, though I had beard<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">of and even tried out watercress, fashionable in the Fifties.<br \/>\nPurslane has less crunch, more moist munch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As for chewy shiso, decoratively as garnish<br \/>\nor rolled into a\u00a0<i>temaki<\/i>\u00a0cone, it appears often in sushi<br \/>\n(\u3059\u3057, \u5bff\u53f8, \u9ba8\u00a0 as variously transcribed).<br \/>\nI found some the same morning in a stall in the market.<br \/>\nHyssop could have served as well, but serendipity rules,<br \/>\nespecially in the kitchen, as in the writing of poems.<br \/>\nYou are supposed to emprison shelled baby peas<br \/>\nin a cage of lettuce (which \u00a0is related to daisy),<br \/>\nthis to infuse them with vegetal fumes and flavour.<br \/>\nIf the peas are tender enough, skip steaming them.<br \/>\nJust sizzle in butter, adding the hand-picked lobes of purslane<\/p>\n<p>along with some splashes of white wine or stock.<\/p>\n<p>Then you have to decide. Do you want to tear the shiso<br \/>\ninto unrecognizable bits, letting wait until its distinct taste<br \/>\nimposes cognizance of what it is upon your guests?<br \/>\nOr would you rather show off its bright-green fractal leaves<br \/>\nby inserting them whole at angles around the dish of peas?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young, I hadn\u2019t the faintest notion of purslane, though I had beard of and even tried out watercress, fashionable in the Fifties. Purslane has less crunch, more moist munch. As for chewy shiso, decoratively as garnish or rolled into a\u00a0temaki\u00a0cone, it appears often in sushi (\u3059\u3057, \u5bff\u53f8, \u9ba8\u00a0 as variously transcribed). I found some the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/petits-pois-a-la-francaise-w-purslane-shiso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Petits pois \u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise w Purslane &#038; Shiso&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[67,69,68],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-collations","tag-comic","tag-food-and-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}