Totally NUTS thread...

[getbent]

Some of the world's tastiest nuts are grown not too far from my home... but, I have to say... my favorite nut is the Marcona Almond! My goodness they are goooooooooood (using best Andy Griffith accent) salted... they taste great on salads, ice cream, alone, I can't think of when I don't want one...

I love nuts as a general rule, almonds, cashews, peanuts, pistachios, but these marcona almonds are just crazy good!

This is the nut thread... Show us the nuts you love...

and tell us how you love to eat them!

[boris bubbanov]

Pistachios.

I can eat so many, I appear to be turning green.

I love cashews, too, but they really will add to you waistline. Pistachios are a better idea because you do have to hull them.

Oh, and Planters dry roasted sunflower seeds, hulled and salted.

Do toasted pumpkin seeds count?

[maestrovert]

Cashews for me please, followed by Filberts in a very close 2nd...
when i was a wee lad, we had a couple of old walnut trees in our yard....

[robt57]

This is like DeJa vue all over again...

[woodman]

make mine undyed pistachios ... but i confess to a weakness for the lowly peanut as well (i know, they're not really nuts, they're legumes), unsalted and roasted in the shell.

Randy, i've never had the Marconas ... what the diff between those and your basic almonds?

[getbent]

Woody, I love all almonds (and peanuts too and pistachios) and eat lots of them..

The marconas are a different shape and very white and soft and when salted.. are sublime... if you have a whole foods near you.. they have some great ones!

[SINCASTER]

An anxious world looks to Harlan Pepper for the definitive answer.

[RodeoTex]

Getbent, I once spent a week in Chico at the Chico Nut Co. installing a machine. They only process almonds and there are at least 6 distinct varieties.
The guys that work there can lift the lid on a bin and tell you the exact variety inside in less than 2 seconds. I never did learn to differentiate but I ate so many almonds that week that my jaw muscles ached.

If you're ever up that way you ought to stop in a get a sample pack of all varieties. I'm sure they still do that for visitors.

[getbent]

Awesome! I'll plan a trip!

[mudbean]

Meat & potatoes: Salted Pistachios
For a treat: Salted Macadamias

mud

[giginthesky]

all my favorite nuts are on this forum!

[Telewilly]

I like 'em all. Favorites: Macadamia, but not too many at once (they have a laxative effect), all kinds of peanuts, pistachios, pine nuts in my spaghetti sauce, hazel nuts..............mmmmmmmmmmmm.

[trojan_whores]

Boiled salted peanuts

[mudbean]

Originally Posted by trojan_whores

Boiled salted peanuts

Oh, I tried "berled" peanuts when I was visiting family in the Atlanta area years ago ... they wuz gooood!

mud

[Fendrcaster]

Yeah, boiled peanuts are big down here in the south, but, as a displaced yankee, one was all I could stomach. Just give me any roasted nuts and I'm happy.

[emu!]

I bet alot of people, like myself, thought this thread was about some other kind of nuts when they opened it for the first time.

I'm outta here before I say too much.

Don't let the nuts hit you in the a$$ on the way out the door...

[markothefish]

Almonds , Salted or smoked
Pistachios , not the dyed red ones , I like the natural looking ones .
When I was a kid I would go with my mom downtown shopping . There used to be a great Mr Peanut shop that sold fresh roasted or boiled peanuts .You could smell it 3 blocks away .I loved getting a small white paper bag with warm fresh roasted peanuts .




ALL HAIL MR. PEANUT !!!!!

[Tim Armstrong]

I love 'em all, and the boiled peanuts we bought from a roadside stand outside of Athens, Georgia (drove south on a spur-of-the-moment road trip with my college punk band in 1986) were sublime!

I'd put toasted almonds on ANYTHING.

But my favorite nuts are the roasted peanuts for sale outside of ANY major league ballpark!

MMMmmmmmmmm, GOOD!

Cheers, Tim

[Westerly Sunn]

Let's not leave out Brazil nuts...



Ask the GF... I gotta weakness for nuts! Lovem' all...cept' them Macadamias
Cashews are just a SINFUL PLEASURE!!!
Legumes or not, Peanuts are a food Group ...and boiled? Compared to Boiled peanuts; Lay's chips ain't even edible... I wasn't aware they could be et without finishing the entire 10 gallon boiler full!

When I was a kid, there was an old Blind man that roasted peanuts outside the entrance to the one small bank in our town. Daddy would always buy himself and each of us a bag whenever we went in the bank. Besides the fact that they were dee-licious... Daddy wouldn't-a' dared not support a man like that...

[Telarkaster]

My friend at work went back to Lebanon to visit his family. He brought me back almonds from his family's tree in their backyard, picked just 52 hours prior to me eating them. Not salted nor smoked, just straight from the tree. Wow! Like eating a fruit! Makes me wonder what they put in Blue Diamond to make them taste that way, nothing like the real thing.

[studio1087]

I love cashews and pistachios....mixed with raisins.

Nuts don't bother the fact that I'm diabetic. Everytime that I stop at a gas staion and want a snack....there are 100 things that I can not eat and then there are the beloved nut packs.

Hey man; I was in a band once called The Beloved Nut Packs. We did new age versions of speed metal songs. People hated us. Total flop.

John

[trag-o-caster]

I've been on a nut kick lately, buying bags of unsalted, roasted in the shell peanuts at the store across the street from me.

My favorite is those large redskin peanuts. I LOVE those things!

I like 'em all though.

[Telegazer]

California nuts from the Central Valley, almonds and pistachios. Sooooo goood.

We've been hooked on Blue Diamond Lime and Chilli flavor almonds all year, too.

[Paul in Colorado]

Walnuts. I chop 'em up and put 'em in pancakes and waffles. I also like smoked almonds, cashews and salted peanuts. Good road food.

Anybody remember the scene in Kentucky Fried Movie with Stephen Bishop about nuts?

[Big John]

Oh no, i'm dribbling again !!

For me it's chestnuts, but they have to be roast on an old brazier, that way you taste the soot from your fingers as you peel them, preferably cooked out in the street on a cold, damp, foggy UK night then served in a paper bag so it warms your hands.

[stantheman]

I love 'em all! But there's nothin' quite like a bag of peanuts in the shell while watching a Baseball Game. I love to cook cashews in all my Asian recipes they cause the folks I work with to go absolutely apeship! They actually come out looking like a dish one would see on The Food Network at some 5 Star restaurant. Almonds go really great in tons of vegetarian entres too.

[ajgus]

It reminds me of that scene in Best In Show where Christopher Guest is talking about how he can name all of the nuts in the world. Hilarious!

[ajgus]

Originally Posted by SINCASTER

An anxious world looks to Harlan Pepper for the definitive answer.

I see you beat me to it...

[Eric Karonen]

Two words: Hot Nuts! I love 'em all, but especially if they've just been roasted and are still hot.

[Cyrithicus]

[Jakedog]

I'm boring. Give me plain ol' Walnuts or Pecans. When I was kid in Texas, our whole neighborhood was smothered in big, old, pecan trees. I could eat a bushel's worth on the way home from school.

And they make dandy wrist-rocket ammo.

[Eric Karonen]

Originally Posted by Big John

Oh no, i'm dribbling again !!

For me it's chestnuts, but they have to be roast on an old brazier, that way you taste the soot from your fingers as you peel them, preferably cooked out in the street on a cold, damp, foggy UK night then served in a paper bag so it warms your hands.

Big John: Street roasted chestnuts were a tradition in Toronto back in the 50s-90s, while on one's way to watch the Leafs win a Stanley Cup (ahem, ie, the 60s, it's been a while). That is some good old fashioned eating. It's rare to find them now, but there's still a couple of old country gents roasting Italian chestnuts on the streets. The Chinese chestnuts aren't quite up to par, but not a bad substitute, all things considered.

[getbent]

some almond shakers... i stop and watch these guys sometimes... pretty amazing...

and walnuts...

[Roli]

[stevieboy]

I never met a nut I didn't like.

Anyone ever try cashew butter?

There was (maybe still is) a place in East County San Diego called Bates Nut Farm--try saying that ten times fast!

[Capperdan]

My uncle and cousin have a filbert ranch outside of Portland, Oregon and I helped with the harvest twice years ago. Also called hazelnuts, very sweet, but a ***** to shell. I actually prefer almonds and love Haagen-Daz Vanilla Swiss Almond...the ultimate ice cream.

[beach bob]

Originally Posted by stevieboy

Anyone ever try cashew butter?

Awesome stuff! I made some not so long ago... I'd bought a large container of roasted cashews, and used some to make the butter. Killer on just about anything. I seen Alton Brown make some on foodteevee, so I looked the recipe up on the foodteevee website. A couple cups of cashews, a little oil [walnut oil per the recipe, but I just used regular veg oil], some salt, a little honey, and a Cuisinart device is all it takes.

Once you have the cashew butter, you can make a quickie Thai sauce w/ some canned coconut milk and some cayenne... mmmm

& FWIW, Sam's sells large bags of dry roasted green pistachios, shelled. Perfect for us Professional Couch Taters

[SimpleOne]

Originally Posted by stevieboy

I never met a nut I didn't like.

Anyone ever try cashew butter?

There was (maybe still is) a place in East County San Diego called Bates Nut Farm--try saying that ten times fast!

Yes...ummm That is a thing best left for a special treat. Cashew butter, almond butter, sesame tahini, yummy good. Get that stuff here 'bouts at the local "Raleys" store. More easily gotten then in the past. Glad enough people like this stuff to get the stores to stock it. Cool time we live in, ain't it? Ah, and gimme them chocolate covered macadamia nuts. Now if I could just get a beautiful hula skirted woman to serve them to me with Don Ho playing in the background, or maybe the "C&H Sugar" song from their old commercials.

[OutlawSteph1975]

The best nuts in the world are sold on the streets of downtown Boston.. roasted with honey, sugar and some spices.

I miss these guys!

[andromeda673]

i love pistachio's and cashews, I love the red pistachio's and the green ones, hell I can sit down and easily eat about 2 pounds of both, I love fresh nuts, all sorts but cashews and pistachio's are my favorite, instead of the sweet tooth syndrome, I have the salt tooth syndrome. Pretzels, nuts, snack items like that, stand no chance when I'm around