{"id":12699,"date":"2016-03-12T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T14:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=12699"},"modified":"2016-03-12T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T14:22:48","slug":"bacon-wrapped-water-chestnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/bacon-wrapped-water-chestnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12701\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lucas1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12701\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12701\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lucas1-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Lucas Vineyards\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lucas1-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lucas1.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucas Vineyards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you are a bacon lover, this easy recipe from Lucas Vineyards in the Finger Lakes is for you! The recipe was used at the 2015 Bacon on the Lakein event.<\/p>\n<p>The special 2016 Bacon on the Lakein takes place next weekend, March 19-20. The 16 winery members of the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail will participate. At each winery a bacon dish will be paired with a wine. Three additional wines will be included for tasting. Participants will collect recipes from the wineries.<\/p>\n<p>At each winery\u00a0participants can drop a ticket stub into the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail Piggy Bank to\u00a0be eligible for a drawing of a BBQ gift basket.<\/p>\n<p>Find out the details and get your <a href=\"http:\/\/cayugawinetrail.com\/events\/661\/2nd-annual-bacon-on-the-lakein-sponsored-by-wqny-1037\">ticket<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Butterfly Bacon Bombs<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>aka: Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Makes 14-16 pieces<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ingredients<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8 strips of bacon cut in half to make 16 pieces<br \/>\n1\u00a08oz can whole water chestnuts, drained<br \/>\n\u00bd cup Butterfly white wine<br \/>\n4 Tablespoons soy sauce<br \/>\n\u00bd cup brown sugar<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Directions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Combine soy sauce and wine in small bowl or zip lock bag. Add water chestnuts. Make sure the liquid is covering the nuts. Let nuts marinate for 1 hour. Drain. Dredge the nuts in brown sugar. Wrap each nut with \u00bd strip of bacon and secure with wooden toothpick. Place on wire rack over foil lined baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes until bacon is brown and crisp. Serve hot or at room temperature. Enjoy with Lucas Butterfly wine.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cayugawinetrail.com\">Cayuga Lake Wine Trail<\/a> for this recipe.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Lucas Vineyards by reading our <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/newyork\/lucas.php\">Wine Trail Traveler article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=12699\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a bacon lover, this recipe from Lucas Vineyards in the Finger Lakes is for you! The recipe was used at the  2015 Bacon on the Lakein event. The special  2016 Bacon on the Lakein takes place next weekend, March 19-20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12703,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions\/12703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}