We have about fifteen pounds. We have a chestnut knife and previous years have roasted some in the fireplace. My gf has made a soup. Other uses?
My wife made a soup once, too.
Some people use them in stuffing.
That’s all I’ve got.
Stuffing, roasting, some game recipes and if you are a kid, chucking them at each other.
Can you freeze some for next year?
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There will be more fresh ones next year.
My gf is taking some to work next time she has to go in.
ETA: the pie and ravioli both sound good!
Chestnut sorbet:
Paper target and Wrist Rocket?
That would either be exquisite or bad. Hmmmm.
Candied (never made, but I’ve eaten them many times)
Chestnut butter (also enjoyed many times, but never made)
How about that confection that Salieri enjoyed in Amadeus: Capezzoli di Venere, which he described as brandied chestnuts in sugar. It always sounded yum to me, but I’m pretty sure it’s a made-up dish.
Sounds like it’s worth making anyway. I love chestnuts, not always easy to get good ones, so id find something to do with them.
I had chestnuts with brussel sprouts, sauteed with bacon and shallots. The chestnuts were in a packet at the grocery store, already cooked. Pretty tasty, and they were all the same size.
That sounds good and easy.
There are towns in Perigord that trade on being chestnut producers (Chestnut Tourism?) and all manner of things are available. Unsurprisingly the various websites describing what’s available are in French, so I don’t think I’m supposed to link. But google searches like marron perigord or châtaigne perigord (there are 2 common words for chestnut) will throw up a few ideas. One thing that I’m aware of but have never tried is chestnut flour (farine de châtaigne) which, if you could dry and mill, at least allows you to preserve your goodies.
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ETA: pickled chestnuts? I’ve had pickled walnuts, and they were pretty good.
I pickle lots of veggies and so I’ll have to try a few chestnuts.
Funny, I’ve also had wrist rockets (slingshot) on the mind lately. I think I saw one at a thrift or pawnshop and have since been looking at a lot of things of a certain size with an eye toward high velocity, elastically accelerated, wrist powered impacts.
Bite sized Snickers (a lot of candy around this time of year, some splat, some splode?), dice, cherry tomatoes, acorns, nail polish bottles, fresh prune plums, ketchup packets, AA batteries, ice cubes, Lego figures.
I thought I’d have outgrown this stuff by now. At least I haven’t acted on my sling fantasy … yet. I’m only human!
On Amazon you can buy ball-bearings in various sizes. I bought one of the larger ones and did a monkey’s fist knot tying around it with paracord. Believe it or knot, this device, called a slungshot is illegal to carry in a few states.
Make fancy chocolate bars?
I like chestnuts in stuffing. And i like plain chestnut in pouches as a snack. For some reason, they are sold around here with the “passover foods”. You can mail some to me if you can’t think of anything else to do with them. I love em.
I think you could probably substitute them for potatoes in most dishes that call for chunked or mashed potatoes.
Every year I think about making chestnut flour (we do have a mill), but then I let all the squirrels and chipmunks clean up the yard & woods and it doesn’t happen.
Yes, but those are for a different application: better for accuracy and damage to target. I just want to fire stuff at a wall.
My father liked to “roast” them in the microwave (after piercing, of course). Lately, though, he’s been eating pre-roasted chestnuts that are available at Costco.