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Use chesnuts in a variety of recipes, like this chestnut agnolotti.

By Linnea Covington. TODAY contributor

Most people know the line ?chestnuts roasting on an open fire? from ?The Christmas Song,? a classic tune from 1944 famously sung by Nat King Cole. While roasting and eating them whole is fine, chestnuts have many other uses, and cooking with them isn?t as daunting as it might seem.

?Chefs are starting to use chestnuts a little bit more when they are in season,? said chef Jamie Bissonnette from Coppa and Toro in Boston. ?But most Americans, unless you grew up in New England, don?t really see them growing up.?

That doesn?t mean you shouldn?t experiment with them. Bissonnette?s advice: get them in season, get them fresh and never use frozen. ?A lot of people see the frozen and peeled chestnuts and think it?s a substitution, but it?s not,? he told TODAY.com

Bissonnette scores an X on the flat side of each fresh chestnut with the tip of a knife, lays them out on a baking tray, and cooks them for 30 minutes at 325 degrees. He lets them cool and then de-shells them, saving the husks, which he soaks in milk to make a chestnut milk that?s good for mixing, braising and thickening.

He makes chestnut fettuccini with chestnut milk poached boar, which might be followed by a chestnut gelato with chestnut biscotti crumble. But that?s not all, this James Beard-nominated chef also uses the nut in a special paella he makes for Toro, and is known to pair chestnuts with farro and sausage. For the pasta dishes, Bissonnette uses chestnut flour, which you can find at gourmet groceries or online.

Chefs at Giovanni Rana Pastificio & Cucina in Manhattan?s Chelsea Market use chestnut flour to whip up steaming plates of chestnut tagliatelle with guinea fowl ragu, and they stuff the whole nuts to into their ravioli al brasato.?

?You can?t overlook chestnut flour,? said chef Andrew Zimmerman at Sepia in Chicago. ?It?s great for making chestnut polenta, which was the original polenta of Italy before corn was brought over. You can make it in conjunction with other flours to make Tuscan and northern Italian style pasta dough, which goes well with braises of venison, wild boar and pheasant.?

Unlike Bissonnette, Zimmerman has no problem buying a jar of pre-shelled French chestnuts from the grocery store. As he eloquently said about the whole, fresh version, ?they are kind of a pain in the neck.?

He prefers the easy route, and if you are making a soup, putting chestnuts in a dressing or stuffing ravioli, they work well.

Whether you choose to use jarred chestnuts, or roast and peel them yourself, there are plenty of things you can make with this winter ingredient. They pair well with many seasonal specialties, and you can put them in pasta, make pasta with chestnut flour, or use whole chestnuts to make chestnut agnolotti (recipe below) like chef Brandon McGlamery does at Luma on Park in Florida. No matter how you do it, chestnuts can easily be incorporated into your cooking.

Chestnut agnolotti
Courtesy of chef Brandon McGlamery and Luma on Park

1 pound of butter
3 pounds of onions
3 pounds of peeled chestnuts
1 quart of heavy cream
3 fresh bay leaves
1 sprig of rosemary
Dollop of mascarpone

Brown butter.?Add onions and caramelize until they are a very deep brown.

Add chestnuts and season with salt.?Add heavy cream, fresh bay leaves and sprig of rosemary,?

Simmer until nuts are falling apart, constantly stirring.?Remove rosemary and bay leaves.

Pur?e in small batches, using mascarpone cheese to thin and get it going. Puree until it is ultra-smooth.

Season, then pipe into your favorite pasta shape

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Source: http://bites.today.com/_news/2012/12/24/16125685-not-just-for-roasting-make-a-chestnut-pasta

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A White Christmas In Store For Metro Detroit As Winter Storm Closes In

Detroit Free Press:

After just enough snow falls today for a white Christmas, meteorologists will be watching to see how many inches southeast Michigan can expect from a storm headed to the region on Wednesday.

Current forecasts of a storm system moving in from the south show three to six inches of snow will start falling Wednesday morning, accumulating through Wednesday night, National Weather Service meteorologist Sara Schultz said today.

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1 killed, 1 wounded in bar shooting near Seattle

Private security officers and a mall official stand adjacent to the Munchbar Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, in Bellevue, Wash. A 30-year-old Seattle man was killed and another man wounded in a shooting at the crowded bar earlier in the morning, police said. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The interior of the Munchbar, where tables are seen overturned and debris strewn about, is photographed Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, in Bellevue, Wash. A 30-year-old Seattle man was killed and another man wounded in a shooting at the crowded bar earlier in the morning about 10 miles east of Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The exterior of the Munchbar, where tables are seen overturned and debris strewn about, is photographed Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, in Bellevue, Wash.. A 30-year-old Seattle man was killed and another man wounded in a shooting at the crowded bar earlier in the morning about 10 miles east of Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) ? A 30-year-old Seattle man was killed and another man wounded in a shooting at a crowded suburban bar early Monday, police said.

Police issued an arrest warrant Monday evening for a 19-year-old man in connection with the shooting.

The shooting broke out just after 1 a.m. at Munchbar at Bellevue Square, an upscale shopping center about 10 miles east of Seattle, said Carla Iafrate, a spokeswoman for the Bellevue Police Department.

Police officers were outside the bar when gunfire erupted because a large crowd had gathered there, she said.

More than 600 people were inside the venue at the time of the shooting. "It was a very complicated scene," Iafrate said.

The wounded man was taken to Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue. Iafrate did not immediately know his age, hometown or condition.

The shooting appears to be an isolated incident. "There was some type of altercation," before it, she said.

Iafrate said the suspect police are seeking, Ja'mari Alexander Alan Jones, was convicted as a juvenile in the high-profile 2008 beating death of a Seattle street performer. Jones was sentenced to less than a year in juvenile detention on a first-degree manslaughter charge in that case.

No officers were involved in the shooting.

Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said several players were at Munchbar following the team's Sunday night victory over the San Francisco 49ers, but none were injured.

"From what we know our guys were in a separate area and nobody was involved at all," Carroll said during a Monday news conference. "It was an awful thing that happened."

Witnesses described a chaotic scene, telling local media they dove for cover or hit the floor when they heard gunshots.

The shopping center opened Monday morning as normal, Iafrate said, adding that the shooting had minimal impact on overall operations.

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South Sudan must punish those who downed UN helicopter: Russia

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia called on South Sudan on Saturday to punish those responsible for shooting down a U.N. helicopter, killing its four Russian crew, and take steps to ensure such incidents do not happen again.

A Russian Foreign Ministry statement named the victims and said the "tragic occurrence" in the African nation on Friday underscored the need to provide security for U.N. peacekeeping missions.

"We call on the government of South Sudan to conduct a proper investigation of the incident, to punish those responsible and undertake all measures to guarantee nothing like this happens in the future," it said.

The Mi-8 helicopter owned by Russian air charter company Nizhnevartovskavia was working under a U.N. contract on a reconnaissance mission in an area where the SPLA, South Sudan's army, has been fighting rebels led by David Yau Yau, according to a U.N. source.

The SPLA first denied it had shot down the helicopter but later said it had mistaken it for a Sudanese plane supplying rebels, and expressed regret.

The Russian statement said that the downing "raises the issue of the provision of security of U.N. peacekeeping missions with new acuteness", and that host nations must take the issue extremely seriously.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-sudan-must-punish-those-downed-un-helicopter-124735739.html

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Judge approves settlement in BP class action suit

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to BP's settlement with businesses and individuals who lost money because of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP PLC has estimated it will pay $7.8 billion to resolve economic and medical claims from more than 100,000 businesses and individuals hurt by the nation's worst offshore oil spill. The settlement has no cap; the company could end up paying more or less.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, who gave his preliminary approval in May, made it final in a 125-page ruling released Friday evening.

"None of the objections, whether filed on the objections docket or elsewhere, have shown the Settlement to be anything other than fair, reasonable, and adequate," he wrote.

BP and attorneys for the plaintiffs said they were pleased.

"We believe the settlement, which avoids years of lengthy litigation, is good for the people, businesses and communities of the Gulf and is in the best interests of BP's stakeholders," company spokesman Scott Dean said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press. "Today's decision by the Court is another important step forward for BP in meeting its commitment to economic and environmental restoration efforts in the Gulf and in eliminating legal risk facing the company."

A statement from plaintiffs' attorneys Steve Herman and Jim Roy praised the settlement program's administrator, Pat Juneau.

"This settlement has ? and will continue to ? bring the people and businesses of the Gulf the relief they deserve," the attorneys wrote.

The April 2010 blowout of BP's Macondo well triggered an explosion that killed 11 rig workers and spilled more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, closing much of it for months to commercial and recreational fishing and shrimping.

There is still a lot of litigation left, including a trial to identify the causes of BP's blowout and assign percentages of fault to the companies involved, Barbier wrote. That trial is scheduled next year.

He said it averts worries that litigation could continue for 15 to 20 years, as it did after the Exxon Valdez and Amoco Cadiz oil spills, creating a secondary disaster for those affected.

Barbier has not ruled on a medical settlement for cleanup workers and others who say exposure to oil or dispersants made them sick.

The agreement covers people and businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and some coastal counties in eastern Texas and western Florida, and in adjacent Gulf waters and bays.

BP has already begun paying claims before the law required it, and is doing so "in an impressive fashion," Barbier wrote. He said the claims center processed 4,500 claims a week in November and has authorized nearly $1.4 billion in payments, and BP also has paid about $405 million on nearly 16,000 claims during a transitional process that ended June 4.

Barbier noted that lawyers' fees won't come out of settlements: BP has agreed to pay them separately.

As part of the settlement, BP will pay $2.3 billion to cover seafood-related claims by commercial fishing vessel owners, captains and deckhands. That fund is the settlement's only limit, Barbier wrote. He said that it is about five times the average industry gross revenue from 2007 to 2009 and, according to evidence provided, more than 19 times the revenue the industry lost in 2010.

After Barbier's preliminary approval in May, thousands of people opted out of the settlement to pursue their cases individually. More than 1,700 changed their minds and asked to be added back in by a Dec. 15 deadline, Barbier said.

Still unresolved are environmental damage claims brought by the federal government and Gulf Coast states against BP and its partners on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, and claims against Switzerland-based rig owner Transocean Ltd. and Houston-based cement contractor Halliburton.

BP also has paid or agreed to pay settlements of:

?a record $4.5 billion in criminal penalties, including $1.3 million in fines. U.S District Judge Sarah Vance has scheduled a Jan. 29 hearing to accept or reject that plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, which also includes guilty pleas to criminal charges involving the workers' deaths and to lying about the amount of oil spilled from the blown-out well.

?$525 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused it of misleading investors by lowballing the size of the spill.

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Associated Press reporter Michael Kunzelman in New Orleans contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-approves-settlement-bp-class-action-suit-011733758.html

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