{"id":432,"date":"2007-09-29T15:59:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T15:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2007-09-29T15:59:47","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T15:59:47","slug":"a-birthday-meal-for-kathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2007\/09\/a-birthday-meal-for-kathy\/","title":{"rendered":"A birthday meal for Kathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister Kathy came to visit us this weekend.  Her birthday is on Monday, so we decided to celebrate it while she was here.  She wanted a special dinner, and I told her I&#8217;d cook anything she wanted me to (except for Beef Wellington, I just couldn&#8217;t commit to that).  She chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/2005\/03\/short_ribs_braised_in_porter_a.html\">this recipe<\/a> for Short Ribs Braised in Porter Ale with Maple-Rosemary Glaze that I had made before.  I decided that I wanted to braise with wine instead, so went to epicurious and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/235843\">this recipe<\/a> which sounded pretty good.  It was!  Restaurant quality I would say.<br \/>\nI did use 3 1\/2 <i>tablespoons<\/i> of the herb mixture on the ribs.  I considered putting the rest of the mixture on the pot (I think there must be another use for the mixture or they wouldn&#8217;t ask to make so much), but ultimately didn&#8217;t. Not sure if it&#8217;d have made a difference.  I also didn&#8217;t put the vegetables on the blender after cooking.  I&#8217;d already messed up enough plates and I didn&#8217;t have to have more dishes to wash (we don&#8217;t have a dishwasher).  The sauce was a little chunky but still delicious.<br \/>\nIn all, I&#8217;d make this recipe again in a heartbeat.<br \/>\nI served it with mashed potatoes, and, before the meal, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/party\/mika2\/salad.html\">Mixed Green Salad with Gorgonzola Vinaigrette<\/a>, which is delicious and a favorite of Kathy.  For dessert we had birthday cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister Kathy came to visit us this weekend. Her birthday is on Monday, so we decided to celebrate it while she was here. She wanted a special dinner, and I told her I&#8217;d cook anything she wanted me to (except for Beef Wellington, I just couldn&#8217;t commit to that). She chose this recipe for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinner","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}