Baked Sweet Potatoes with Hazelnuts

We were in Barcelona for the holiday of Todos los Santos (All Saints’ Day), and some friends who live there invited ns to their home for a traditional celebration that included baked sweet potatoes, roasted chestnuts, and pine nut cookies (panellets). Around this time, down the street from our apartment, there was a woman with a stand on the corner roasting sweet potatoes and chestnuts over hot coals. I loved how the potatoes became so dense, sweet, and blackened after being cooked for such