{"id":1345,"date":"2014-04-04T17:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T00:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2014-04-04T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:00:13","slug":"freeze-dried-durian-not-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Freeze-Dried Durian: Not Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted because if you Google &#8220;freeze dried durian review&#8221; you mostly get useless hits like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q3MtKzPvF8k\">this one<\/a>. After this post, I will return to more typical subject matters for this blog.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, sure it&#8217;s not as pungent or flavorful as the frozen kind, but it&#8217;s still not bad by comparison, and it lends itself much better to be taken as a snack on hikes than thawed frozen durian (which could be <em>very<\/em> messy should its Ziploc bag spring a leak). Some of the savory aspects (in addition to the expected sweet ones) of the flavor even managed to survive the freeze-drying.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, &#8220;not bad by comparison&#8221; means &#8220;very yummy&#8221;, because face it, it&#8217;s still durian. I can only imagine how awesome it must taste fresh. If I ever visit Southeast Asia rest assured my trip <em>will<\/em> be during durian season.<\/p>\n<p>The one surprise is how <em>big<\/em> the the three bags that came in the mail were; about twice the size that I was expecting, in fact. (Not that it&#8217;s going to be any challenge to consume it all or anything; maybe I&#8217;ll try concocting a recipe for durian-flavored granola.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted because if you Google &#8220;freeze dried durian review&#8221; you mostly get useless hits like this one. After this post, I will return to more typical subject matters for this blog. I mean, sure it&#8217;s not as pungent or flavorful as the frozen kind, but it&#8217;s still not bad by comparison, and it lends itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}