Where, oh where ... (foodie question)
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Topic: Where, oh where ... (foodie question)
Posted By: ginger
Subject: Where, oh where ... (foodie question)
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 3:41pm
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Can I get chestnut puree from?? Anyone know? ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 3:41pm
| Geepers... and what may I ask are you using that for? Not some crazy witchy fertility potion I hope! |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 3:52pm
Say what? What on earth do you use that for and can you share the recipe? Sounds interesting! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 4:04pm
LOL Nikki ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 4:05pm
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If you can't buy any ready-made puree, you can buy whole raw chestnuts from the supermarket.
Boil for about 10 minutes, then fill the pot with cold water. This makes them easier to handle when peeling! With a small, sharp knife, make an incision at the base and peel off the hard shell. Chuck any that are black (boiled chestnuts should be a similar colour to roasted kumera) Optional: put the cooked chestnuts into a roasting dish with a little oil, and roast in a preheated 180 degree oven for 15 minutes or so, until the outside is slightly crisp and browned. Lightly salt. Put your cooked chestnuts into a food processor and blitz until pureed. Add a little oil slowly if necessary to create the appropriate texture. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 4:12pm
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Well of course Nikki, what the hell else would I be using it for ...?
Apparently if you squelch it between your toes ... Nevermind 
I have this recipe - somehow I managed to watch the tail end of a Nigella Lawson programme at xmas, and she made this ... (OK - anyone want to put money on how long it takes Emma to ditch me into the recipe section?  Naughty ginger posting in the wrong place ...although technically it wasn't the wrong place per se until you guys asked what I wanted it for ...so it's actually you guys' faults )
In a dessert glass, sprinkle the bottom of the glass with rough chopped dark chocolate. On top of the chocolate put a couple of tablespoons of chestnut puree (I suppose I could use hazlenut or some such thing if there is anything like that) Crumble up some meringues and mix these into some whipped cream, and then put a good sized dollop of the whipped cream on top of the chestnut puree and cocolate, and then sprinkle the top with a 'snow dusting' of broken meringues. Mmmmm.... yummy. Plus I think you could play around with the recipe a fair bit to do what you like with it. ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 4:13pm
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Zarbo ( http://www.zarbo.co.nz/Product?Action=View&Product_id=353 ) .... Mercato (http://mercato.shopnz.biz/catalog/index.php) Eurodell ( http://www.eurodell.co.nz/home.htm ) ....it's pretty common - used a lot in Italian and Meditteranean cooking... ------------- |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 4:51pm
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oooh sounds like an excuse to go to one of those cool italian kitchen places like in clevedon, whitford etc Ginger....
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 5:46pm
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I looove those places! I used to have wee (not so wee really ) shopping sprees at Sabato quite regularly! And I spent a fortune the last time I went to the Italian Country Kitchen at Clevedon!
Thanks for the linky Emeldee!! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 7:58pm
By Becca's description it sounds a bit like peanut butter - until you read Ginger's recipe!  Yum! Sounds like an AF treat
Anyway I got Emma to rename recipes to "Food and Recipes" last week - what's your next excuse? -------------  |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 8:01pm
 I can't read ......?
I'm actually an illiterate, just a really clever one ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |