Tekitou: Autumn #9: Noodlin' / 秋＃９：栗に狂った

My Japanese language dictionary gives just one example sentence for the entry "chestnut": "This potato eats like a chestnut."
「栗」を電子辞書で調べたら、英語の例文を直接に翻訳と「この栗はイモように食べる」になる(??????)

Well, this girl eats like a chestnut mare. And tonight she ate chestnuts!
ま、この女はイモのようより、馬のように食べれるので。。。今晩は栗を！

They've been gleaming at me as I pass the greengrocer's for a little while now, so I finally gave in.

何日前から八百屋さんから「やっほー」って言ったように待っていた栗を！

Having no open fire upon which to roast the little gloating globes, I opted for pasta instead.
栗をパスタに！

In the meantime, I marinated the marbled beef strips I'd purchased.
共になるお肉をマリネードにいれた。

I have yet to meet more lickable meat.
なめたかったけど、我慢した。

I also prepped my lotus root:
レンコンも準備した：

Lotus root is lovely and crunchy, but a bit bitter and easy to brown. I peeled and sliced the root and put it in water with a touch of vinegar to wait.
レンコンを酢も入った水に入れて、待たせた。

I simmered the chestnuts, peeled them, crushed them first in the blender, then pressed them through a sieve. Placing these actions side by side in one sentence, separated by only one naked comma makes it seem like this process did not take a long time. Uh: it did.
栗を煮て、皮をむいて、ミキサーで粉にした。ここで３０秒で書いたけど、結構時間かかったなあー

In the end, the chestnut meat looked something like the above.
結局上のようになった。

After introducing it to some egg yolks and flour, and forcing it to suffer some heaving petting, punching, and poking, I eked a dough out of the chestnut paste. I rolled it out (not owning a rolling pin, I used the ubiquitous umeshu bottle) and cut it up.
それに卵の黄身、小麦粉。こねて、薄くして、切った。

Then things got busy: I had caramelized onions and maitake mushrooms sauteed in butter awaiting the noodles. The lotus root and some kabocha squash found themselves pan fried in the juices of the seared beef.
パスタを炒めたタマネギと舞茸、レンコンとカボチャを肉のマリネードで。