Babs goes nuts!

11.6.2025

Here’s some we did yesterday:

First preheat your oven to 200°C if it’s a fan oven (higher if not), or 400°F or gas mark 6.

Then rinse the chestnuts, trim off the stem, and cut a cross in the outer skin. If you don’t slit the skin they will explode in the oven.

Get a grown-up to help you with this because it’s quite fiddly and needs a sharp knife. We don’t want any fingers getting sliced!

When you’ve done that you can put your nuts on a baking tray or dish …

We only collected a few yesterday because we’d never tried them before and didn’t want to waste too many if we didn’t like them. Of course you may deduce now that we did like them!

Bung them in the oven and roast them until the skin peels open which should take around half an hour.

While they are warm, peel off the outer brown skin and the inner paler skin …

And you’ll be left with a beautiful, soft, creamy-coloured nut which is absolutely delicious:

Yum!

Happy foraging

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51 responses to “Babs goes nuts!”

imaginenewdesigns12

July 31, 2015

Thank you for liking “Post A Quote Challenge: Day 3.” I enjoyed this post because I learned something new from it. I did not know that there are two types of chestnuts and that horse chestnuts are poisonous. I am glad to know this information in case I ever come across some wild chestnut trees in the future.

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1. Violet of Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
  
  August 1, 2015
  
  You’re welcome, and we’re also glad you liked this one, thank you for telling us 😀
  
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  1. imaginenewdesigns12
    
    August 2, 2015
    
    You are welcome too. I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. 🙂
    
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    1. Violet of Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
      
      August 2, 2015
      
      Thank you, you too 🙂
      
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    2. imaginenewdesigns12
      
      August 2, 2015
      
      🙂
      
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Vashti Quiroz-Vega

October 28, 2014

What an adorable post! I loved it! I also learned lots of new stuff. Like I didn’t know chestnuts had that hard spiky shell. Yikes! I didn’t know you could bake them either or that they grew in trees (I thought bush for sure). Thanks for teaching me something new today and in such a fun colorful way. 😀

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1. Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
  
  October 28, 2014
  
  Ha ha 😀 thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it 😀
  
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Adrian B

October 21, 2014

Vonderful!!!!! back home we use to eat them and drink grape juice.

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1. Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
  
  October 22, 2014
  
  Oo I want to try that! Thank you!
  
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nthibodeau7

October 18, 2014

Thanks for teaching me about chestnuts, Babs! I’m pretty sure we don’t have those out here, as trees in general are hard to come by, but just the reminder to forage is a good one 🙂

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1. Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
  
  October 18, 2014
  
  Excellent! Thank you very much, I will pass your message on to Babs 🙂
  That’s a shame about your trees – everybody needs trees.
  
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kvjinc

October 12, 2014

I like eating chestnuts and now I know more about them.

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1. Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
  
  October 13, 2014
  
  🙂
  
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