Chestnuts

So Greek Easter can wait. These are honest to goodness chestnuts collected by Jeni, michael, Tessa and me at a few unnamed locations - cannot reveal our source.






Michael was so funny as the season approached, telling me we must remember to collect them before the squirrels ate them all. He was right of course - we missed the window by a week or two which meant that we mostly found empty casings. But check out the exterior casing to a chestnut - not funny to be pricked by those thorny pods. I marvel at how the critters must deal with them.

It was fun to collect them and then do the "shelling" which involved stomping on them in sneakers and gloves, as you can see.

Emma enjoyed the walk and the swim after the collection was done.

now though we have two boxes of chestnuts and I've never cooked them before.

Fortunately there is an Etel recipe we can try for a rather rich sweet dish which has a funny name like "a man in his bow tie - in other words a black and white dish. If we make it, I will chronicle it here.