How Italy Helped Me Rediscover a Christmas Classic: CHESTNUTS
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2022
- If you're an American, like me, you probably don't eat chestnuts despite singing about them every Christmas. Chestnuts are practically a lost food in America but they remain extremely popular in Italy. Today, Eva is giving me my first taste of chestnuts with some Italian chestnut recipes!
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Have you guys ever had chestnuts? And do you know of any good places to get them in the US? Asking for a friend… 😅
There is a chestnut Grove near the 10 and 87. I don't know if they sell them to the public.
Local (Austin) "fancy" grocery gets them in the fall. They're generally not great, with about half of them having the "inner skin won't come off" problem. They're such a pain to deal with that I stopped buying them many years ago, but when they're good they're good. They go well with braised brussels sprouts, cooked in a bunch of butter and good stock.
⬆️ Ditto to what Michael said for Houston. I think the mealy/mushy texture of a bad chestnut is one of the vilest things imaginable. (I’m assuming you’re talking about Central Market. Eva might die there. No shortage of legit Italian products.)
I remember my Sicilian grandparents roasting chestnuts. We lived in CA but they missed chestnuts from back in the day when they lived in NYC. I was so young back then, so didn't appreciate the chestnuts. I'd like to try them again someday.
You all, should plant some shestnut tree... in 5 or 6 years, you may have your own.
As an Italian, I laughed a lot when in front of the French dried mushrooms Eva said - with an expression that alone said it all - "because there wasn't any better"
Yes! Especially southern Italians
I always put Chestnuts as more Occitan then Italian. The Camisards use to corner the Kings men in Chestnut groves.
So did I! LOL!
You should see her (not) buying French wine.
@@matthewmorrisdon5491 you mean "than Italian". Always amazed on how many native speakers don't know grammar well at all.
30 years from now Harper will say " I've had all the pasta dishes there is. " at that time Eva will bring out a new dish.
The American Chestnut can be found out in the wild but is very rare. The American Chestnut is currently being bred with Chinese Chestnut to hopefully bring it back by creating a fungal resistant breed.
Hopefully they're careful and it doesn't accidentally go the other way
@@Fantafaust It can't go the other way. It's choosing the hybrid seedlings that retain the gene for resistance. The rest are gotten rid of; there would be no point in keeping them.
And the Chinese variety has been resistant to the fungus for millennia - it actually does attack them but they head it off. That's why the fungus got to the US in the first place; they brought Chinese trees and it was on them.
There are trees in the Pacific Northwest, where conditions aren't good for the fungus. They've also done gene splicing to give pure American chestnuts resistance without altering any other part of their genome.
I'm sad that I'll be long gone before these new trees can recolonize American forests.
People have been growing them in Massachussetts for at least 15 years.
Pacific Northwest here, & found an American 🌰 tree. Scored a fantastic amt. Boil chestnuts first & then roast, which makes the husk around the nut easy to remove. Have frozen many of them. So far chestnut soup (delicious), chestnut ice cream, put in stuffing for duck (Thanksgiving), etc. Tonight clam & chestnut rissoto tonight. Looking forward to filling pasta with 🌰 & ricotta. One source says the chestnut blight was the biggest ecological disaster in the US (now forgotten). Food for Naive Americans & very impt. in the Appalachian Mts. Evidently the wood is stellar, doesn't rot, etc. used for railroads, homes, fences furniture, etc.
My grandparents were Italian and we used to have chestnuts every Thanksgiving. My grandmother would cut a cross slit into the top of each one before putting them in the oven, and for us kids would stick a penny or dime into that slit. Ah, the memories
I grew up in a Sicilian-American family in Buffalo and we always went to my grandmother’s for the holidays and we always had chestnuts. She also cut a cross into the top, but no coins for us! And yes, wonderful memories.
When Harper is going on about the open fire the eye roll from Eva was like straight daggers through my screen. 😂
*Eva :)
@@markarbar2226 that's what I get for typing to fast, careless mistakes. Edited accordingly.
Chestnuts? Mama mia! We just returned from two months in Italia and around the middle of Novembre the chestnut guys magically appeared on every other street corner and piazza. We ate hot fresh roasted chestnuts from the fire every day until we left. Also went to Calabria for the first time thanks to you guys and I had the best pizza I've ever eaten, nduja, cherry tomatoes, onion, and some other stuff I don't remember. Grazie mille e ciao ragazzi!
I would love to learn about Italian desserts without sugar. Happy Holidays Everyone 🎄
A true pistachio Gelato should have very little sugar and taste nutty, not sweet
@@theclimbingchef love pistachios and Gelato
In Spain you can buy roasted chestnuts in winter in the cities and villages, and they are roasted in the street in open fire. In Madrid you can get 12 roasted chestnuts in a paper bag for about 2 to 3€.
Nice to see people in Europe are in general big fans of roasted chestnuts!
Your videos are always wonderful!
In Italy toooo! But here they're too expensive (those type, not the supermarket one), we always joke that only billionairs can afford 'em (like cherries in the summer)
Never had chestnuts here in the states. But I have in Spain and they are amazing!!
Roasted chesnuts on the streets ın Turkey and Japan, in the wınter. Also, in Japan, they are boıled and eaten wıth a small spoon.
Roasted chestnuts on the streets in Germany, too.
Austria as well
I remember my Greek American father roasting chestnuts for us in the fireplace many decades ago (I’m 56 so) They were relatively good but some work to open. I didn’t realize they were decimated here in the US. That’s actually very sad
I grew up in NYC there were carts in the street selling roasted chestnuts and big pretzels. Every year my dad used to cook them in the fireplace in our house in Brooklyn.
While the chestnut roasting carts are pretty much gone from Manhattan streets, one can still buy raw chestnuts in many groceries around NYC. Of course, they're Chinese chestnuts, the American chestnut being all but extinct.
Same here in London. Although I haven't seen a street vendor for a few years now. We'd also go collecting in Epping Forest and roast them on the fender in front of the fire. Granddad actually had a long-handled roasting plate, full of holes like the roasting pan in the video but almost flat, for the purpose. I wonder where that went?
"roasted chestnuts and big pretzels" ? Damn, sign me in !!!
I just posted a very similar comment. I remember the chestnut carts on the streets of New York in December. Am I wrong? Don’t they exist any more?
@@TheCatWitch63 I think they survived the Pandemic . I’ll ask one of my friends who still live there.👍
Yes please, to a desserts with no sugar episode. ❤
I would LOVE a desserts with no sugar episode!! ❤
Are you on a keto diet?
Me too! I can't have much sugar and would love more ideas.
They make Italian not magic!
Yes, PLEASE!!! Because it's healthy, but also exciting - it seems really rare to find a dessert recipe without added sugar!
This episode (13:08).
That EYE ROLL over Harper's joke.
The INSTANT knowledge the chestnuts were old.
She's an icon. She's a legend. And she IS the moment.
8:22 It is difficult, dear Harper, to get tired of eating pasta (especially then for us Italians), since each pasta dish, as you see, is a specialty unto itself. The more we travel within Italy, the more we discover new specialty pasta dishes, one better than the other. 😊
It ups the odds if every meal has a pasta course!
I am a Hungarian living in America. I make an effort every Fall to find chestnuts to roast. It is getting harder and harder and more expensive every year. Albertson's had it this year imported from Italy. I wash them well, wipe them, make the cut, sprinkle them with water, and I roast them in a pan on the stove on low heat COVERED! It takes about 20-30 minutes. Once it is done I dump them on a tray and immediately cover them with a towel. That way they stay hot and moist while I am eating them. Fantastic treat!
Hey guys! I have to say I'm not a fan of chestnuts by themselves, but my grandma makes this dessert called caggionetti (although I discovered this not too long ago, since she's always called them caggiunitti, which aparently is in dialect, I'm guessing), a christmas dish from Abruzzo. You guys should make them! They're like, these sort of mini sweet empanadas, filled with a chestnut paste mixed with a lot of other things, such as cocoa, coffee, nuts, some sweet liquor, etc. It's one of my favorite christmas desserts and one of my favorite sweets in general. At the end it has a very rich taste, the chestnuts are the base of the filling, but their flavour is almost overpowered by the other ingredients and it's just perfection at the end. I should also point out that if where one lives chestnuts aren't a common product, therefore hard to find, they could be replaced by sweet potatoes. Lots of hugs to you from Venezuela and happy holidays, guys!
All over Abruzzo, we are proud of our delicious Caggionetti at Christmas.
That sounds so good!
Yeeeeesss a no sugar desserts episode!
But also Spaghetti alle vongole o "Pasta allo scoglio"
Buone vacanze ragazzi!
A terrific video. Beautifully made with excellent techniques. I appreciate the respect you both have for Italian food, your thirst for knowledge about both Italian and American food, and your professionalism. Your humor is rooted in friendship and reality, unlike too many phony, clownish cooks on the internet. Thank you for making Italian food and its traditions vitally important.
My love of chestnuts comes from my Grandparents who were from Abruzzi. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas we always had chestnuts and bowls of mixed nuts. Who else remembers the nut bowl with the metal nut cracker and the picks?😊
I do!
I am Portuguese. So I was raised with Chestnuts. I live in the USA in a very Portuguese community. Chestnuts are available every winter. Love them!
As a kid growing up in NY state my Italian grandmother roasted chestnuts for us every Christmas. I had forgot about it until seeing your videos as she has been gone now 20 years. Thanks for the memories.
For my father's birthday in the end of October, my mum makes a chestnut roll cake, outside with castagne and cacao and inside butter and sugar... it's a bomb!
Vienna has vendors roasting chestnuts everywhere. Loved that town
In Lisbon as well.
We have chestnuts aplenty in all the grocery stores from late October to about Christmas, although the good ones are gone by late November (good chestnuts are notably heavier, they feel like small rocks). I roast them in a cast iron pan in a very hot oven, then wrap them in a moist towel for about 10 or 20 minutes, which causes the skin to separate from the flesh better.
17:41 That is also an art ! Being able to create such a neatly arranged “mountain” of chestnuts. 👍
travel all the way from USA to Italy for chestnuts 🌰 loved that end! 😁
I rememer in new york when i was a child vendor's on almost every corner roasting chestnuts, im 82 brought back memories with my Mom, Dad, and sister, visiting in new york city, they are gone now and so is new york city.
I’m always amazed at Eva’s knowledge of food from different areas of Italy! I barely know the foods from my family! I’d love to know where she learned it all! This episode was so enjoyable! I love the recipes Eva made- they all looked so yummy! ❤
Castagnaccio and Risotto with Porcini mushrooms and chestnuts, well done Eva, make Northern Italy known to the whole world.
Yes, please do a video showcasing italian deserts without sugar!
Surprisingly, I get my chestnuts from a local place called, "Tim's oriental Market" here in Tx. Specialty Asian markets usually carry them. And for a great price.
My mother grew up in the Italian area of the Bronx and grew up eating fresh roasted chestnuts from street vendors. She has a chestnut obsession when they are in season and will stand at the counter in her kitchen eating them all hot from the oven, not even letting them cool. I also love them and like to eat them plain or add them to my Thanksgiving dressing.
“Too late, I already love you.”
Thank you for keeping that cute line in
My Italian partner roasts chestnuts in our home, every end of autumn and winter. It's like there is a magic spell that brings perfume and peace into a home.
My Calabrian grandmother roasted our family chestnuts every Christmas season. The tart looks amazing. I may make it depending upon find the chestnut flour. That you for your wonderful videos.
I love them and remember when they were widely available. It's a pity they are not around anymore.
This is the best show on UA-cam. Last time I was in NYC they still sold them near Central Park in the winter in paper cones, burnt smell so good. Unsweetened canned chestnuts turn up in larger supermarkets, used for chestnut stuffing at Thanksgiving.
My father (second generation Sicilian) would cook chestnuts for us every Christmas Season when we were kids. Italian desserts with no sugar? YES PLEASE!!!
Brought back memories when I lived in Florence in the winter of 1971 and before crossing the bridge Santa Trinita in the cold weather buying a paper cone of roasted chestnuts that warmed my hands as I pulled them out to eat crossing the bridge. Love chestnuts. We are lucky here in Lawrence Kansas to have Chestnut farm. Charlie's Chestnuts. You can find them on line and they mail them to buyers.
Roasted chestnuts are a staple in the UK, especially in London, or at least they used to be. I haven't lived there for over 30 years. Around this time of year, the chestnut sellers used to roll out their fires and sold them by the cone. When I was little, my Dad used to roast them over a fire, either indoors or on a bonfire outside. They are very special to me xox
I cook my chestnuts in a cast iron pan on the stove. My Belgian hubby always misses chestnuts around Christmas time.
He misses his Christmas Markets, so, that's how we cook them.
I live in Hawaii and most of our chestnuts are from Korea.
I lived in Pennsylvania, on a fruit farm. We had several chestnut trees. In the fall each year we would harvest them and sell them to a local farm stand. I enjoyed eating them fresh, but when roasted they were even sweeter. They are delicious!
Yes I have had chestnuts, (spent 12 years over seas in Germany and UK) Thats where I had them and loved them. You go walking down town on a cold afternoon with all the chrismas markets and find a guy on the street corner with a chestnut roasting machine. Get a small bag, and they were so nice and warm in the hands and smelled and tasted awesome
Ever since I was a kid (and I’m old now), my mom made roasted chestnuts every year, I never liked them until I got a little older, now my mom has passed on two years ago and I missed them over the last few years, they were best over a wood fire I think. Thanks for reminding me about chestnuts, I’ll have to make them again. 🇮🇹😎🇮🇹
I'm from Elba Island (Tuscany) and my mom makes castagnaccio grinding some of the nuts into the batter and adding fennel seeds instead of rosemary. She also adds some orange peel as week. I like her version better, but the I like the traditional one as well.
Our neighbors on our block had about 20 chestnut trees total. Every year we would pick up the fallen ones and crack open the green or brown spikey outer shell to reveal a beautiful shiny mahogany brown shell. Until the 90s when almost all of the trees became diseased and had to be cut down.
We use to take a knife and cut an X on the pointy end and roast them in the oven.
Fantastic your in Rome, my favorite city. Can't wait, I will be moving to Rome in the Spring.
As a Sicilian, I love all these recipes, so thank you for sharing. I’d love to see more desserts with no/little sugar
Eva works for magic once again…with chestnuts!
What great news that you are spending Christmas in Italy; I am highly anticipating your upcoming Italy Christmas videos!!!
There is a wonderful chestnut beer from Corsica available anywhere in France. My caviste in Calvi told me it's popular across the way in Liguria/Tuscany too. Corsicans do all kinds of things with chestnut flour too.
I'm pretty sure I've seen marrons glacés in Turin. In France the perfect gift for maiden aunts and mothers-in-law. The best are often specified as being made with chestnuts from Turin. I used to have a house in Périgord/Limousin where peasants beg you to pick up and take fallen chestnuts home. The locals roast them, or boil them, peel them and eat them like popcorn. For the last ten years or so I've served our Christmas goose /capon with cognac-laced stuffing and a side of chestnuts and Brussel sprouts simmered in white wine and fond du veau. Last but not least, the Limousins distill a chestnut eau de vie that will see you through from Christmas dinner to New Year's reveillon. Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël, Buon Natale to Eva , Harper, and to all you of good will.
The place where I live is full of chestnut trees, we have entire mountains of chestnut woods and even lots of villages here take their name out of "castagne" (chestnuts).
During world war II chestnuts saved so many people here because there was nothing to eat but we had plenty of chestnuts and they are very rich in nutrients.
Where I live torta di castagnaccio is very popular but my favourite chestnut dessert is frittelle di castagne e ricotta, basically a sort of fried pancake served with fresh ricotta on top, I highly recommend that!
“Let us know i-“ YES! lol. If Ava makes it, I’m sure it’s delicious. Especially when she beats Harper to the burn appetito. I can only imagine the zero added sugar deserts are amazing.
Growing up in the 1950's - 1970's, we had chestnuts a few times every year. Boiled and peeled and they were delicious.
Chestnuts! Love them in turkey dressing. Also awesome chopped over goat cheese and drizzled with honey. The packages pre-roasted are good quality and good value. Consistent quality. Whereas I've spent big bucks on fresh ones to roast and a few times were moldy inside. If a package pre-roasted are available that's my first choice. Mom roasted them when we were kids and we all loved them at holiday time.
Really enjoyed this video! I had roasted chestnuts for the first time in Switzerland, where they are called marroni. They are yummy. The Swiss also make a dessert out of chestnut purée that is squeezed through a sort of press that makes worm-like strands. It is slightly sweetened and usually served with a little whipped cream - it’s called vermicelles. (I’m originally from Florida, but have lived in various places in Europe for most of my adult life) I enjoy your approach to food very much.
Marroni (marrone = brown) is a variety of chestnuts. Usually they are larger and more expensive.
Here in Montreal Canada, we find chestnuts readily in most supermarkets. The peeled and ready to eat kind as well as the fresh ones by the pound. I am Greek and it is a popular ingredient in our rice-based stuffing. I buy the bagged ones and have them as snacks. Delicious and healthy.
I love this channel for opening me up to a lot of things I didn't know about Italian culture, and cuisine! For example, I had no idea about chestnut pasta, and that at least some Italian woman can roll their eyes so hard it could kill a man.
What a fun introduction to chestnuts
I would greatly appreciate Ava sharing her recipes of desserts without sugar
I remember fondly working in NYC with street vendors everywhere roasting chestnuts over coals and would sell them in bags for like a dollar, maybe less. On a cold snowy day, the hot bag of chestnuts was a delicious, warming treat. Even got a bit of coal ash on the nuts before you peeled them.
I love chestnuts. I’m Sicilian so I was raised on them, so delious
I can remember as a kid visiting New York city during the holiday season and there were chestnut vendors on every corner. The air would be thick with the smell of roasting chestnuts good times
Yes, you can still get chestnuts in a local grocery during the holidays.
Soak over night, bake at roasting temperature.
Guys I’m so happy you do castagnaccio my favorite dessert!!! If I can be a bit precise castagnaccio is the Italian name, in Florence we call it Migliaccio and maybe also in the other parts of Tuscany. At this point I must go to the bakery and buy a slice 😋😋😋😋
Christmas during lockdown, when we were not getting together with people, I decided to splurge on fancy ingredients to bring a special celebratory feel to the season. Our upscale grocery store carries fresh chestnuts, so I bought them for the first time since I was a young child having them at my uncle’s over the fire. I didn’t remember what they were like, but I bought the special chestnut scoring tool, blanched them, then roasted them, and now look forward to having them every year! They are soft, delicately sweet, and are a renewed tradition that brings me joy to incorporate this time of year 😊
Ciao, Eva & Harper! I had Chestnuts when I lived in Japan. I'm not a real fan, but when they came off the trees, they immediately started roasting them. They were a type of street food you could find around shrines & temples all over the country. They'd use them a lot in Japanese sweets eaten with tea, but sometimes you'd find them in your rice. Yeah, well, it was a option. Have a great time and Buon Natale!!!
Years ago they sold chestnuts roasted on the streets of Manhattan! I looked forward to that every Christmas as a child!
Chestnuts are grown in California. I used to repair water systems for many. Some were highly valued from the Stanislaus county area. Before they are removed from the outer hull they look like a mid evil torture devise composed of a green ball with hypodermic needles tightly compacted all around. Then they split like a Y pattern. They are the freshest as fresh can be. I roasted some from my customer’s and they were great. Try searching California chestnuts. I think they marketed to the public through Safeway grocery stores. - but mine were off the tree 😊
When I lived in Pescara, Italy, we loved our roasted chestnuts. We actually had a chestnut tree in America. It takes a special method to roast them well. I still love them to this day.
It's not Christmas without chestnuts, especially during your childhood,in Italy ❤
Chet was a gifted parrot. If you held a candle to his right foot, he would sing jingle bells. If it was on his left foot, he would sing silent night. Curious, the new dad put the candle between his feet. That's when he started singing: Chet's nuts roasting on an open fire...
You can buy pans in the US for roasting veggies on an outdoor grill that have holes like that - I bet they would work to roast chestnuts on your bbq if you bring fresh chestnuts home from Italy. Buon Natale! 💕
Hello guys
I'm from spain. I was born in a town up in the mountains (Ávila). It's a really cold place where during fall and winter it's also comon to have roasted chestnuts. And, just like Eva, it's my favorite thing during the coldest seasons. XD
As a child; one snowy day, 50+ years ago; a white paper bag-full warming my hands; the heat from the brazier; the vendor wearing a black wool coat, flat cap and fingerless gloves, on a non-descript street corner in central London. Never tasted so good since.
Seattle, Wash. Used to be roasted chestnuts in front of the Four Seasons Hotel before Xmas. Now at the entrance of Uwajamia (Asian grocery store, 🌰 being roasted by a vendor.
I ALWAYS have chestnut when in Rome in wintertime... they are the BEST ...😊💖
Chestnuts out here in New Jersey are wonderful. Buy them every year. I take a knife and put a cross across the round side of the nut. Place in a pan and put about a 1/4 inch of water in the pan to add moisture in the over. Bake at 350 until the shell of the nut opens and peels back. Let cool and enjoy….and Ava, you’re so right….when picking them out make sure they are firm when you press them….
Chestnuts were once extremely common and popular in the US. Holiday stuffing recipes often called for chestnuts. At one time it was estimated that 1 out of 4 of ALL hardwood trees in the US was an American Chestnut, numbering in the billions. Its straight-grained wood was prized for furniture-making, and of course, the nuts were used in many foods, as well as a dye for cloth. The native American Chestnut was almost completely wiped out by the introduction of a Chestnut Blight that arrived with imported Japanese Chestnut trees in 1904. There are a few isolated stands of American Chestnut in Wisconsin and Michigan. There is a movement attempting to breed a blight-resistant chestnut to be reintroduced to the wild.
Chestnuts are so good. I wish we ate them more in the US. First I had them was in Japan. Fell in love.
I introduced my wife to roasted chestnuts in Rome, during Christmas in 2014. They sell them on so many street corners.
when I was growing up my grandparents use to have a chestnut tree in the yard. we use to eat them every year we visited them but never roasted. was fun walking under the tree since they look like a porcupine.
I remember having chestnuts every Christmas when I was a kid. I live in CT and you can find them at a supermarket like Shoprite who cater to many ethnic tastes. We have a huge italian-american population here.
Yayyyyyyy!!!! What a fun surprise at the end ❤️ so glad you guys got to go for the holidays ❤️ enjoy!
This was so well done! Loved it!
Ava, you have outdone yourself. Thank you for introducing me to a whole new set of dishes that are brilliant. Happy Holidays!!
Yes, in the Philippines, one of the Christmas food traditions that we have are kastanyas (from the Spanish word castañas) roasted in huge woks over live coals. When we came to Canada when I was young, we were shocked that chestnuts during Christmas were not common here in North America, because we had heard the Christmas carol. We even tried buying some from the store, but we ran into the same problem you guys did: it was very old, and even after baked in the oven, it was hard to open up and did not naturally split open, and the nut was hard and not sweet and smoky. We gave up, and it stopped being a family tradition for us here. That was years ago. Maybe we'll try and see if it's available now. Great video as always! Keep up the good work. :)
The contempt for french produce, only an italian can display.
Good job Eva XD!
omg that walnut pasta sauce looks soo good! im definitely gonna try it. thanks for the recipe!
It's so nice that you will be in Italy for the holidays! Looking forward to the videos you do there. I love seeing all the places you go to when you are there and the wonderful restaurants and food you have. I've never had chestnuts either. I'm very interested in trying those recipes. Especially the first one that you can use as a sauce.
Loved this video so much!v Buon Natale. Thanks for posting this!!!!
Yes chestnuts are wonderful and are in our local stores. I’m Portuguese and they’ve always were part of fall/Christmas traditions.
Back in the day, over 60 years ago, when I was a kid we used to get chestnuts and pretzels on the street corner in Manhattan at Christmas time. Wow that's a long time ago.😲
Fortunately, there are several stores in South Florida that sell Italian chestnuts from a week or two before Thanksgiving through Christmas. I remember my parents individually selecting only good ones. Many years later, I find myself doing the same. I have been averaging about two pounds a week since Thanksgiving. Thanks.
Chestnut gelato - gelato montebianco! So wonderful!
⭐️ We have purchased from Correia Chestnut Farm in Oregon and were beyond impressed.!! We lived in Germany for 8 years, so we know good chestnuts! Thanks & give them a try! 😊 Vicki
It looks like Correia is in California and they sell marroni chestnuts. But there are a bunch of farms in the Willamette Valley in Oregon that grow chestnuts. I believe some of them are (probably hybrid) American chestnuts.
They use an American rootstock but trees from Italy.
Awww! I just love you both!! And I love this channel!!
You guys are so awesome🫶🤍….thank you for all your amazing vlogs and recipes….my wife and I love love love watching you guys and cooking your recipes😊🤗 Much love from us in Canada🇨🇦🇺🇦
THANK YOU…😊
Yay!!!! So excited you'll be in Italy for Christmas!!! Buon Natale!!
I think there have been some fantastic advancements in restoration of the chestnut trees. I know one conservation group in Asheville NC has been working on it for a few generations and there are more like them all over the east coast. They found stands of healthy trees and got to work.
I know they’ve had years of bad luck. The blight has eventually infected the crossbreeds but some are finally looking promising.
Also, can you do a video of what you and Ava bring back from Italy when you return? It would be fun to see Ava’s favourites!
I’m pretty sure they did that video already.
We gotcha! ua-cam.com/video/uRI42yWMSWI/v-deo.html
I make a stuffing with chestnuts every Thanksgiving. As kids we used to find them in the forest and they were cooked in water. I have never found good chestnuts here and I buy them peeled in a pouch for my stuffing.