Chicken with Pine Nuts

Nuts are very popular in Spanish cooking. I remember the first time I had a chicken and nut dish. It was in the hills behind the coastal strip on the Costa Blanca in Alicante. And in an earth-floored wooden shack, doors open to allow some breeze to drift through the intense heat of the afternoon sun, I gorged myself on joints of free-range chicken that had been sautéed until golden and tender in olive oil with a little garlic and dozens of the sweetest, freshest almonds you could possibly i