Today's Kitchen Basics video is a holiday special: How to roast and peel fresh chestnuts. Chestnuts are a hallmark of the season - and the fresh ones are incomparable - but if you've never handled ...

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There’s more than one way to prepare chestnuts. To boil fresh chestnuts: Score each nut with a sharp, pointy knife, making sure to cut all the way through the outer shell. Peel off outer shells. Place ...

Use a paring knife to cut an "x" into the domed side of each chestnut. Place the scored chestnuts domed-side up on a rimmed ...

Here is some general advice for handling and preparing chestnuts, to get the best from them. Fresh chestnuts are in season October, November and December. Look for heavy nuts with glossy, ...

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Nat King Cole gave chestnuts a permanent place in holiday history when his (fourth) recording of “The Christmas Song” became popular in the early 1960s. You know the one … “Chestnuts roasting on an ...

I almost poisoned myself this fall, sampling some foraged Ohio buckeyes. Someone told me they were chestnuts. They looked and felt just like chestnuts, with their brown, lacquered shells. But they ...