I had some extra figs so I turned them into Fig Chestnut bars.
They were made from candied Chestnuts and a mix of Hardy Chicago, RDB, Black Triana, San Pietro, Figgy Frank's Fig and an Unknown Calabria Fig. They didn't last too long.

Wow, great, Tony!  Did you candy the chestnuts yourself?  I've never got into that but maybe I'll have the time someday if my son takes over the farm! lol

Yeah Harvey my brother has 4 Chestnut trees so I get all that I want from him. I eat them raw, roasted, boiled and candied. Candied is my favorite. They're fast and easy to make. Peel and boil with sugar and minimal water. Just enough to cover the chestnuts. Boil long enough to make a thick syrup. They are the best.

Peeled chestnuts last about as long as a ripe Panache around me, lol.  I made chestnut stuffing for Thanksgiving once.  I have a lot of chestnuts available too! :)

OK Tony, I can see you're a bit of a tease. You can't post photos like that and not share the recipe. I have a few pounds of marrons from Harvey and have been contemplating what to do with them.

Nice, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

Always enjoyed Chestnuts around the holidays .

@ Harvey ~ ~ Nice harvest. I bet you could fill my truck and my trailer heaped up over the top!

@ Dale ~ ~ There is no written recipe, nothing measured out. It's one of those kinds that my grandmother says "you just put some of this and some of that until it looks good".
Here it goes, now these are just estimates because I did as told by my mother. Lol

Chop up enough figs til you got enough (about 1 1/2 cups)
Some sugar, (about 1 cup)
Throw in some chestnuts (about 1 cup) these were candied using brown sugar
Put in pan and cook it slow until it all breaks down and gets thick
Let it cool

I really cheated here. She said to make some dough to put on the bottom and top of the figs so I used crescent roll dough.
I used 4 pieces for the bottom of an 8 X 8 pan.
Spread the cooled fig mix over the dough
For the top I spread out 4 pieces of the crescent dough on a cookie sheet to fit the 8 X 8 pan and put it in the freezer for 15 minutes until it was stiff enough to scrap it off with a metal spatula. Then transferred it over to the pan for the top layer.
Bake @ 350 until golden brown
Cool and cut into bars

I hope it was clear enough. I should of taken more interest years ago and had every recipe written down with the measurement instead of "some of this and some of that" or "you know until you got enough or it looks good"
Sometimes those recipes turn out better than the measured ones.

Thanks for the recipe Tonycm. That's exactly the way I cook most of my stuff, so I totally "get it"!  :D

Oh Drool, those look fantastic. Now I have to look for some chestnuts. And some figs. Well I guess you can make them out of dried figs, right? Are there chestnut trees in the Philadelphia area?

What appealing things in this thread! 

The bars look great. I've looked up several recipes since growing figs and hope to have enough extra to make something like that next year.

And the chestnuts! Gorgeous! My parents used to buy and roast some of those every year for the holidays. I love both the smell and taste.

Tony, That looks very good. I think that would be a hit in my house.

Great recipe, Tony.

So, Harvey, how do we order chestnuts from you?

THose look great, Tony! I don't get to have chestnuts very often. We have walnut and hazelnut trees around here. I've never heard of candied chestnuts.  It sounds delicious.  Thanks for sharing your recipe and I hope to get enough ripe figs to try it out next year! 

Bob, is that a request for a plug? My chestnuts (Italian marroni varieties) are sold on my site at http://www.chestnuts.us  Harvest is finally slowing down.  Not enough to fill Tony's truck and trailer but several pickups (7,200 pounds and counting).  I have sold about 40% and typically sell out by Thanksgiving.  The photo posted above was of my sorting table where damaged (woodpeckers, usually) or defective chestnuts are removed before running through the size sorter.

Really, woodpeckers? Are they after the nutmeat? I thought they were insectivorous.

Woodpeckers eat a lot of different things. They do eat mostly insects but they also eat the sap from trees and seeds and some fruit. The reason I know that is because I wanted to put something for them to eat one winter and read about what they like to eat. Their eating habits change with the seasons and eat what is most available. Apparently chestnuts must be on their menu. Who could blame them, they got good taste too!

Yes, woodpeckers are the only bird that seem interested in chestnuts.  I don't think crows can get through the shell since it has some flex to it but woodpeckers have quite an impact and get through.  Sometimes I find some chestnuts that have been chewed on by a mouse or some small rodent but woodpeckers are the biggest problem.  While I don't ever observe them pecking on my trees, I have noticed some damage to trees which I imagine is due to them as well.  I see them pecking on power poles which is always a mystery to me as they surely aren't going to get any sap out of those poles to attract insects.  Besides, don't they get headaches from banging their heads like that??!! ;)

I'm not a fan of chestnuts, sorry Harvey, but if there are enough figs in the bars, I'm game. They do look good 

I read a study on woodpeckers a while back talking about why they peck telephone poles.  It was interesting because in the study they found if the pole is moved over a few feet and set up again that the birds will leave it alone.

So there you are, Harvey. Just move your trees a few feet.

LOL, give them an inch and they'll take a mile! ;)