{"id":8419,"date":"2016-10-14T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2016-10-09T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:13:43","slug":"the-mirepoix-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2016\/10\/the-mirepoix-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mirepoix Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.epicurus.com\/food\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bolognese-mirepoix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=300 class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Making mirepoix (<i>meer-pwah<\/i>) seems to be the fundamental skill for every self-respecting cooks.  Alas and unashamed, I am not one.  Then came the day, Wife far away, I thought to make myself a hearty soup.  What was that flavor-base with a French sounding name?  Google came through with both the right word and the general instructions.  (This is a fine application of voice-based searching.  &#8220;Alexa, how to make <i>mye-roe-qua<\/i>?&#8221; &#8220;To make <em>mirepoix<\/em>, you start with&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I first chopped one onion, finely.  Then I eyeballed carrots and celery to roughly half in volume.  Turned on the stove and throw in onions and carrots and started to sweat them.  When the onion became translucent, I threw in celery and garlic (just because) and simply stir them once in a while until the celery was soft.  This completed the mirepoix, a flavor and aromatic base.<\/p>\n<p>I needed a meal.  So I poured water to cover, threw in tomato, potato, and tofu.  Boiled them for about 10 minutes, threw in some pre-cooked beef, added chopped basil, and I had a stew.  Hearty and delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making mirepoix (meer-pwah) seems to be the fundamental skill for every self-respecting cooks. Alas and unashamed, I am not one. Then came the day, Wife far away, I thought to make myself a hearty soup. What was that flavor-base with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2016\/10\/the-mirepoix-experiment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8419"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8428,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}