{"id":930,"date":"2008-12-28T21:09:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T02:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2008-12-28T21:09:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T02:09:29","slug":"chestnuts-roasting-near-a-gas-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/chestnuts-roasting-near-a-gas-flame\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestnuts Roasting Near A Gas Flame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/IMG_2942.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/80485-2\/IMG_2942.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"Roasted chestnuts, showing how the skin peels back after being slit cut with X pattern and roasted. \"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Danielle purchased a large handful of chestnuts for me a few weeks back and tonight I finally got around to roasting them. Per the directions I found online I slit them (all but one) with an X, put them on a pan, and roasted them at about 425\u00b0 for 15 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p>When they were done it wasn&#8217;t difficult &#8212; just a bit hot &#8212; to peel the skins off exposing the meats of the chestnuts. The only difficult part was opening the non-slit one, as cutting it caused a burst of steam to come out and burn me. Whoops! I was hoping that it would explode as the pressure built up, but alas it didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I think of the taste of roasted chestnuts. They seem fairly good, but mentally I keep putting them somewhere between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edamame\">edamame<\/a> and soft walnuts because of the soft texture, bean-ish flavor, and brain-y appearance. <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/IMG_2944.jpg.html\">Here is a photo of the peeled chestnuts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle purchased a large handful of chestnuts for me a few weeks back and tonight I finally got around to roasting them. Per the directions&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/chestnuts-roasting-near-a-gas-flame\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chestnuts Roasting Near A Gas Flame<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}