Baked Chestnuts or Fragrant Beetroot (Beets) with Whipped Salted Butter

Nat King Cole’s Christmas song ‘Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire’ brings back decades of memories, through so many generations and to this day. I have made these delicious chestnuts with my beloved grandmother, with my parents, and continue to make them today with my children.

The fragrant beetroot (beets) has always – and will always be – one of my favourite dishes. The hot beetroot (beets) meets the cold butter, the sweet meets the salt in an insanely delicious,