or, I hate these damned chestnuts.
Oh, how they mock me with their dark, shiny, wooden exteriors (who doesn't love shiny dark wooden things?) How they call to me with their siren song of chestnut chocolate cake!
Ok, so, it is indeed difficult to be Nature Girl when you have no idea what you are doing. After roasting the chestnuts in the oven, I struggled to peel one, and then I tasted it. NOOOOOO! It tasted really bitter. This led to a panic that we had collected horse chestnuts, but a Wikipedia search only confused me because the true chestnuts and the horse chestnuts looked REALLY similar, AND it said that the taste of raw chestnuts can be "astringent". I was somewhat buoyed by Jeremy's claim that he ate chestnuts from the park (without dying) two years ago by grilling them with his friends. But did he eat from that tree? Could they have mixed horse chestnut trees and true chestnut trees in the park (ooooh, that is evil)? I then tried another peeling method, but the horridly bitter taste in my mouth really took the zap out of the impending hour of manual labor, so I gave up. I just got over being a little sick, I don't feel like have food poisoning in the same week.
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Sarah- I am not sure, but just because a "buckeye" went to Europe, I don't think horse chestnuts went there also. I think the horse chestnut is a north american relative of the other chestnut(actually, it is not related at all, looked it up). did you peel the papery stuff off of the chestnut after you roasted it? I looked for some web sites- found a couple you may have seen: http://oz.transfusion.net (cute) or www.seetuscany.com
maybe these will restir your daring personality to try again!
Maybe you'll want to venture next into the world of black walnuts. We've just picked up many wheelbarrows full thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Ike last week.Dad finally said to just run them over - he'd rather sharpen the mower blades than pick up anymore nuts!
Hmmm... we still have a few chestnuts that I haven't mangled. I should try the Tuscan way! But why do you need to put holes in the pan?
Mom, if you collect the black chestnuts, I'll crack them at Christmas!!
Hmmm... we still have a few chestnuts that I haven't mangled. I should try the Tuscan way! But why do you need to put holes in the pan?
Mom, if you collect the black walnuts, I'll crack them at Christmas!!
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