{"id":263,"date":"2007-04-07T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2013-03-01T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T09:50:09","slug":"spiced-pecans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"spiced pecans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to recreate this <a href=\"http:\/\/sahalesnacks.com\/products_valdostaBlend.asp\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow\">particular nut mix<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/recipes\/appetizer\/nuts_spicedpecans.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow\">method from this recipe<\/a> when I realized I&#8217;m out of maple syrup. So I had to make do with some Korean citron honey tea that was lying around. It worked out quite well and it did save me the trouble of zesting the orange.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I did:<\/p>\n<p>Take about 2 heaping teaspoons of the citron tea and mix in a little bit of warm water; just enough to make it into the consistency of maple syrup. Stir that into the pecans until well coated. Then mix in some fresh ground black pepper and a few pinches of ground cardamom. (Yeah, I know cardamom was not originally in the prepackaged kind, but I like it for the added kick.)<\/p>\n<p>Spread the nuts on a foil-lined flat baking sheet in an even single layer and bake in a preheated 350<sup>o<\/sup> oven for 10\u201315 minutes. Stir and flip the nuts every 5 minutes. Before the last five minutes, stir in a handful of dried cranberries and continue baking until toasted and most of the liquid absorbed. Foil bits sticking to pecans doesn&#8217;t taste very good, so cool just long enough to handle and transfer the nuts into a container.<\/p>\n<p>Yum. \u00a0^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to recreate this particular nut mix with the method from this recipe when I realized I&#8217;m out of maple syrup. So I had to make do with some Korean citron honey tea that was lying around. It worked out quite well and it did save me the trouble of zesting the orange. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,50],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-cooking","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}