Autumn and Chestnuts

Can you tell it's Autumn, wherever you are? Well, it's still Summer in my country, at least for today. Temperatures reaching 25°C and full sunshine. But the weather is to change tomorrow, with a serious temperature drop, heavy rain and even snow in higher places. I don't like that.

But I also don't like eating chestnuts (it's peak season here) in a T-shirt. You need to have freezing hands and be drinking mulled wine along with steaming hot freshly roasted chestnuts, right?

Well, lacking lower temperatures and armed with a kilo of fresh organic chestnuts straight from the woods, I didn't let something like warm weather stop me from consuming my fave autumn food.

ps: how do I know the chestnuts were organic? half of it was bad with worms! :)

So anyway, back to my chestnuts experience. I own a chestnut pan (with holes) that I use only to roast chestnuts. It's been stored away for a whole year and now it's back in business. Besides the pan, I also use a camping gas burner (something like this) for cooking, which comes in handy every once in a while (for camping,   roasting chestnuts and if you like, cooking badly smelling food outdoors).

So, I cut the chestnuts, put them in the pan, waited for the man to come home and check that the gas burner was ok to use because I didn't dare, then asking the man to please start the burner with a match and me hiding indoors in case there would be an accident, and then me coming out of my hiding, putting the pan on the fire and roasting away! A glass of red wine and some 20 minutes later, the chestnuts were done and we both (although HE said he wouldn't) dug in!

I had cooked the remaining half of the pile and is awaiting my arrival home to elliminate it!

Let the chestnut season begin!
How 'bout you, do you like chestnuts yourself?