Do you like roasted chestnuts?
When autumn comes, this is a meal - or a snack - that I'm really eager to eat. However, I had always bought them at small stalls, in the streets, and had never endeavored to harvest and/or cook any - before last weekend.
Exploring one of the nearby forest (the one in Meudon) with my photography sensei, we came across tons and tons of chestnuts lying on the ground, which had visibly fallen just a couple of nights ago. It was truly amazing. So we began gathering some of them, then a bit more, and suddenly we had collected a whole bag of chestnuts and we could only focus of one thing: eat them at last :-)
Those terribly appealing chestnuts finally made their way to my home (fortunately they were less delicate than mushrooms, as I recall from some unfortunate past attempts), and from there, to my kitchen where we contemplated them for a while, drooling over the perspective of eating them. But how? We were not that thrilled at the idea of cooking them directly in the oven, for fear they might be too hard, so the only remaining solution was to boil them first - and roast them in the oven later on.
Grabbing a pan and some water, we immediately implemented the idea; and hardly after half an hour of additional time in the oven, we had a bunch of home-cooked roasted chestnuts before our eyes!
See how good-looking and appetizing they seem, don't they make your mouth water?
Roasted chestnuts
Yummy chestnuts
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