BS: NUTS!

Subject: BS: NUTS!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 04:27 PM

So... Pine Nuts are a million bucks a pound? Macadamia Nuts are $$$ too? I like a fresh cashew now and then.... almonds for cooking but the chocolate covered ones are NOT allowed in my house. Same banishment for peanuts as I can't stop and peanuts put the weight on me and make me horny as hell, two things I don't need, alone or in combo.

So, tell us about your nuts eh?

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 04:33 PM

"I can't stop"

Just the thing to use to train your willpower.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 04:40 PM

now in another thread I stated after a male musician had said I was the bollocks after hearing me sing, that I wish I'd had the speed of wit to reply, "well I haven't checked lately but my voice has gotten deeper."

I just checked and I still ain't got any.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 04:44 PM

McGrath of Harlow... I haven't eaten a peanut in two years. Lost 60 pounds. I am still horny, but not so often.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 04:55 PM

See, it worked.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 04:56 PM

Xmas is a time for nuts; hazel nuts are my favourites.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:01 PM

Suibhne O'Piobaireachd - indeed. The shops here have large displays of nuts of all types, in the shell and shelled.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:02 PM

Piñons (pine nuts) have always been expensive. Those from the American southwest have better, stronger flavor than those from Asia; the latter are found in stores here, shelled and often slightly 'beyond the best buy date'.
(once had the southwest U. S. nuts in stuffing for a turkey; recipe of the late Tex Austin, don't know what was used with them, but it was very good. Wish I knew).

American pecans, almonds both run about $12.00/2 lbs (907g) in stores here (Calgary). The ones from Asia are cheaper, but I don't know what chemicals, etc. were used in growing and packing them.

New Mexico peanuts in the shell, 5 lb/$8.00, in stores here (western Canada). Lots of fat, but I can't resist! Can't get the Georgia or Texas peanuts here except by mail order.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:04 PM

I believe that thought the fat content in nuts is high the cholesterol is the good kind.

for preference pecans have always been my favourites followed by pistachios.

hell i like em all. prefer them unsalted

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:20 PM

Peanuts make you horny, gnu??? Are you serious? I haven't noticed any such effect from consuming peanuts, not even in vast amounts.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: pdq
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:20 PM

Nevada produces the best Piñon Pine Nuts.

Just as tasty as the New Mexico or Arizona varieties but Nevada type has a softer shell.

Buy now as dealers may run out by Christmas...


                                                                         here is one vendor

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:24 PM

LH... it's a commonly known fact. You are far to cerebral to be influenced by yer nuts.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:34 PM

Most packaged salted nuts have too much salt. Get the unsalted in the bakery section and do your own.
Posted elsewhere, but again-

2 cups unsalted nuts (pecans or almonds with skin on)
1 teaspoon lemon juice (or juice one lemon)
1/2 to 2/3 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt

In a bowl, mix juice, salt and sugar. After this dissolves, add nuts.
Mix thoroughly (I use a fork) until nuts are coated.
On cookie sheet, spread the coated nuts. Bake at 120 C for 15 minutes or so- dry or brown to suit your taste.
When cool, store in sealed container (I reuse jars with screw lid).

Try this with a small amount, adjust to suit your taste and your oven.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:39 PM

pdq- thanks for the vendor add.
$102 for 12 pounds a good price.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:39 PM

i like mine plain.   No dressing up in fancy flavours or pretty pouches

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: pdq
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:40 PM

Pasta Sauce (so good it may be illegal in some localities)

garlic
olive oil
basil (leaves, no stems)(chopped)
Parmesan cheese (freshly grated)
pinon pine nuts (small handfull)(shelled, of course)

Mix in blender as quickly as possible, adding pine nuts last so they still have some integrity.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 05:51 PM

I like piñons in curry.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 06:15 PM

We have two cans of nuts on the kitchen counter, one of mixed nuts and the other of cashews (lightly salted). I usually have a couple of handfuls of either or both every day. Barbara has some chocolate covered almonds stowed away somewhere. She rations those.

I'm also very fond of honey-roasted peanuts.

But the triple-ginger cookies!! I'm addicted. OD every chance I get!

All from a nearby Trader Joe's.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 06:27 PM

About ten years ago, I had to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. It's at an elevation of 7,500 feet, in a beautiful pine forest (that regularly had devastating fires). I was a couple of weeks too early for the pine nut harvest, but people were already making preparations. Apparently, it's a big social event, a good excuse for barbecues and beer drinking. I'm sorry I missed the experience.

Are pine nuts really nuts? Are they in the cones of trees? Which coniferous trees have edible "nuts"? What's involved in the harvesting process, and how do people know when the nuts are ripe?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 06:35 PM

Yep...as Don Firth says, lightly salted cashews from Trader Joe's! I replenished my stock last week. I have some very nice chocolate from there also which...ummmm... helps the cashews slide down.

Now MY serious weakness is Pepperidge Farm cookies with white chocolate & Macadamia nuts! My restraint is to only buy them on sale.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: pdq
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 06:39 PM

Piñon pine nuts are from the tree of the same name, a native of the western United States.

Pine nuts are the seeds of the tree and can be grown anywhere, but no nuts for about the first 10 years.

Cones open in the fall and nuts (seeds) fall out, they are ready to harvest.

Digger pine and Coulter pine have huge cones and larger pine nuts, but require a sledge hammer or jackhammer to open.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 06:49 PM

Peanuts? That's all I have to do? Serve peanuts? Are you sure it isn't the copious amounts of alcohol that accompany the peanuts? Does peanut butter work? Did George Washington Carver know about this????

Inquiring minds want to know.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 07:24 PM

They say familiarity breeds contempt. Well, the house in which I grew up was located on land that was formerly a pecan orchard. We had two very productive pecan trees in our yard and had severe pecan glut every autumn. We gave away pecans in the fall the way green thumbed gardeners give away zucchini in the summer, and still had three or four large grocery bags full of them in the pantry year-round. I've had my fill of pecans and don't care if I never see another of them. You can have my share.

I like Brazil nuts.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: pdq
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 07:33 PM

Here is another supplier with a good selection, based in New York...

                                                                     "nuts on the net"

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 07:57 PM

Macadamia :. http://cookingresources.suite101.com/article.cfm/varieties_types_of_nuts_pistachios_macadadmia

Cashews http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=98

Almonds:http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=20

Brazil nuts (the country is named after them) should only be eaten in small quantities because they have very much selenium:http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/selenium.asp


Pine nuts are supposed to be the best nut for mojo. Figs are also supposed to be good, you can even cover it up with the leaves afterwards:)

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 08:18 PM

Piñon, pinyon; Pinus edulis, of the American southwest:
Pinus edulis

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Janie
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 08:22 PM

I miss having a pecan tree in the backyard.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 08:23 PM

Most Asian pine nuts are from the Korean pine.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: pdq
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 08:53 PM

In New Mexico, Piñon means Pinus edulis.

In Nevada and Utah, Piñon means Pinus monophylla.

There are about 15 million square miles of P. edulis as opposed to 55 million acres of P. monophylla in the western US.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 09:54 PM

Seattle used to have a small, hole-in-the-wall shop that sold all kinds of nuts. I don't remember the proprietor's first name, but his last name was Heck.

The sign over the door read, "Nuts to You, by Heck."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 02:28 AM

sweet chestnuts

yum

prick them
roast them
peel them
quarter them

add to sauteed portabello mushrooms chopped, 3 large cloves of garlic minced in butter, add cooked risotto, fresh parmesan and single cream bit of veg stock and water and simmer until thick and creamy.

yum again

or eat them plain... still warm, better if roasted on an open fire as they get the smoky flavour.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 12:11 PM

Here is Kansas City you could buy dried-up, expensive nuts in small plastic packages in food stores.

I thought I'd try the nuts from the 'natural' food store once, but they were even worse - mildewed. (Maybe it was natural mildew.)

Or you could do what those in the know do. You buy them in big packages through a not-for-profit organization which obtains them from suppliers out in the countryside. Then you keep them in the deepfreeze till the next autumn, when you support another worthy cause.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: olddude
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 05:06 PM

Love em, shouldn't eat them at all, they kill me, rip me to shreds but I love em, especially smoked almonds ... wow good good good

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 05:47 PM

Several good suppliers on the internet.
Almonds- $6/lb if you order 25 lbs. (get together with friends to order) http://almondsbrewerfarms.com. Organic. Shipping included.

Lost my low cost pecan supplier- anyone know of one?

Supermarts here (Superstore, Cosco) have 2-lb packages of U. S. grown pecans and almonds that are fresh and good at this season. Surprised that KC doesn't have them.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 05:57 PM

turn em into butter in the blender and spread on a nice toasted Challa slice.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 05:58 PM

Little Hawk commented:

Peanuts make you horny, gnu??? Are you serious? I haven't noticed any such effect from consuming peanuts, not even in vast amounts.

Googling "peanuts aphrodisiac" got me to this, right away:

Aphrodisiac Peanuts

By Bron Hendrixson

    Rich in Vitamin E, "the sexuality vitamin," and vitamin B1, peanuts and peanut products are recommended by at least three leading sexologists for a restorative diet. Peanut butter is particularly worthy and nutritionists claim that this easily digested high-protein food makes for an adequate survival diet when combined with a citrus fruit like oranges. It's said that a jar of peanut butter is found in four out of five American homes, and apparently more of us should dip into that jar. Those with more exotic tastes might search out the recipe that futurist French chef Jules Maincave invented during World War One for a dish called "young monkey stuffed with peanuts."


And it goes on, with recipes.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Gurney
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 07:39 PM

Dave-O, I used to see adverts claiming E was 'The anti-old-age' vitamin.

Perhaps it works, but not on spring chickens. Like LH?

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 11:56 AM

Hello, Q. Thanks for the tip about fresh nuts at Costco. I don't usually shop there, but I'll keep them in mind.

Peanut butter is really effective if the limp lover uses it to replace alcohol and marijuana. Keep it away from babies, though. They can choke on it.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 12:46 PM

"Nuts !"   ..... General Anthony McAuliffe

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 04:57 PM

Just the two of us, so no longer belong to Costco, but a neighbor is a member and picks up items for us.

A good buy there is pure vanilla extract in pint bottles; much cheaper than the small bottles in most stores. And quart sized maple syrup.
Also some spices/mixtures; a good lemon pepper mix in quart containers.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 05:59 PM

Peanuts? Good for libido & anti-aging?

*grin*... I KNEW the 40,000+ peanut butter sandwiches I've eaten since I was 3 were good, but I didn't realize it explained so many things..

....and many, many other nuts. I LOVE nuts....

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 01:57 PM

So... five... five tins for Xmas prezzies! Salted Deluxe mixed, salted mixed, cashews, cocktail peanuts and honey roasted peanuts. So, the relatives don't like the fact that I have lost over 60 pounds while they have gotten fatter?

Here's sommat... 50g of cocktail peanuts yield 330 calories. 50 g of honey roasted peanuts yield 320c and have 33% less salt.

Now... I am reading this from the labels... % of daily fibre for coctail is 12% and for honey rasted is 16%.

How can that be? It's driving me... in more ways than one.

(I wonder... if the higher salt content causes more of the fat to stay in the body longer and thus be absorbed, yieliding the extra 10 calories.)

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 01:24 AM

Puzzled German officer (to interpreter): "Is that a positive or a negative reply?"

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 02:52 PM

WE have walnuts, Brazils, almonds, cob nuts, peanuts and cashews. I also have cheesy balls.

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 05:49 PM

I dunno' how to break this to you Mrs. D., but youshouldn't have anu balls at all and if you do you probably need to see a doctor real soon.......and a shrink too.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Zhenya
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 03:02 AM

Here's my favorite online source:

Nuts Online

They have a huge selection, good quality, and they're super fast with delivery.

I'm another one who's voting for pecans as my favorite, but I like most types of nuts. I like them as a snack, and also toasted and added to grain dishes. (Almonds and pine nuts work especially well for this.)

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 11:42 AM

Well while reading all the above I have munched through half a bowl, probably a dozen or more, of Brazil nuts! Why?
Because they didn't need shelling. The shop said is was now illegal for them to sell them as the "Shells are poisonous"..What the F*** is that all about, if you can chew a Brazil nut shell you deserve to be poisoned. They are also much drier, not the same at all.
Bloody nanny state.
Burp

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 05:30 PM

That is almost unbelievable. Who the hell would attempt to eat the shell of a Brazil nut?

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 05:41 PM

A hog?

Subject: RE: BS: NUTS!
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 06:57 PM

Information on poison Brazil shells came from a small greengrocer doing mostly local farm produce. But it is ages since I've seen loose Brazils for sale anywhere.