{"id":25,"date":"2008-02-01T21:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T03:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/dipping-oil\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T21:41:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T03:41:42","slug":"dipping-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/dipping-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipping Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite restaurants here in Houston is a local chain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrabbas.com\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Carrabba&#8217;s Italian Grill<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They serve some amazing entrees, like the Pollo Rosa Maria&#8211;grilled chicken breast stuffed with fontina cheese and prosciutto, topped with mushrooms and a<br \/>\nbasil lemon butter sauce.\u00c2\u00a0 But <em>before <\/em>you are served your entree, they bring out hot crusty bread served with dipping oil and spices.\u00c2\u00a0 The dipping spices are a combination of herbs, pepper, and garlic.\u00c2\u00a0 A few months ago, I was looking for something simple to bring to a family event, and thought about doing something like dipping oil and some fresh baked bread.\u00c2\u00a0 I settled on the following combination of spices, adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/recipes.robbiehaf.com\/C\/142.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this recipe<\/a>, and it was a hit.<\/p>\n<h4>Dipping Oil<\/h4>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 tsp. crushed red pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. ground black pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. dried oregano<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. dried rosemary<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. dried basil<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. garlic powder<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. garlic puree<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. kosher salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directions: Combine all ingredients.\u00c2\u00a0 Serve on a shallow plate with extra virgin olive oil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/dipping-oil\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite restaurants here in Houston is a local chain, Carrabba&#8217;s Italian Grill.\u00c2\u00a0 They serve some amazing entrees, like the Pollo Rosa Maria&#8211;grilled chicken breast stuffed with fontina cheese and prosciutto, topped with mushrooms and a basil lemon butter sauce.\u00c2\u00a0 But before you are served your entree, they bring out hot crusty bread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appetizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}