Chestnuts stewed in Marsala and red wine, sweetened with sugar. They can be served either hot or cold.
Castagne e cavoletti is a dish of chestnuts boiled and then sautéed with Brussels sprouts, just covered with stock and braised until cooked.
A disc of goat's milk cheese from Piedmont. Originally these would be wrapped in chestnut leaves, more likely to be paper these days.
A dialect name for the St George's mushroom. A small white or cream mushroom that appears in parts of Europe around St George's Day on 23rd April.
"Drunken chestnuts." A Tuscan dish of chestnuts covered in red wine sauce and often served with custard.
A dialect name for the boletus, cep or porcino mushroom, often used in dried form in stews and stocks.
Sea bream (US: porgy, scup). A large family of fish which includes black sea bream, bogue, Couch’s sea bream (known as red porgy in North America), dentex, gilt-headed bream . They are usually sold weighing up to 1 kg (2 lb). All have a deep, narrow body, small mouth, big eyes, quite large, tough scales, a single, spiny dorsal fin and a black spot on the shoulder. They are good to eat cooked whole, stuffed and baked or braised.
