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02 Dec 09 - 04:27 PM (#2778890) Subject: BS: NUTS! From: gnu 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? |
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02 Dec 09 - 04:33 PM (#2778895) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: McGrath of Harlow "I can't stop" Just the thing to use to train your willpower. |
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02 Dec 09 - 04:40 PM (#2778903) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: VirginiaTam 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 04:44 PM (#2778905) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: gnu McGrath of Harlow... I haven't eaten a peanut in two years. Lost 60 pounds. I am still horny, but not so often. |
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02 Dec 09 - 04:55 PM (#2778922) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: McGrath of Harlow See, it worked. |
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02 Dec 09 - 04:56 PM (#2778923) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Jack Blandiver Xmas is a time for nuts; hazel nuts are my favourites. |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:01 PM (#2778927) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: gnu Suibhne O'Piobaireachd - indeed. The shops here have large displays of nuts of all types, in the shell and shelled. |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:02 PM (#2778930) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:04 PM (#2778932) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: VirginiaTam 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 |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:20 PM (#2778945) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Little Hawk Peanuts make you horny, gnu??? Are you serious? I haven't noticed any such effect from consuming peanuts, not even in vast amounts. |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:20 PM (#2778946) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: pdq 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 |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:24 PM (#2778949) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: gnu LH... it's a commonly known fact. You are far to cerebral to be influenced by yer nuts. |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:34 PM (#2778962) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:39 PM (#2778972) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Q (Frank Staplin) pdq- thanks for the vendor add. $102 for 12 pounds a good price. |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:39 PM (#2778973) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: VirginiaTam i like mine plain. No dressing up in fancy flavours or pretty pouches |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:40 PM (#2778975) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: pdq 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 05:51 PM (#2778984) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Q (Frank Staplin) I like piñons in curry. |
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02 Dec 09 - 06:15 PM (#2779009) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Don Firth 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 |
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02 Dec 09 - 06:27 PM (#2779022) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Joe Offer 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- |
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02 Dec 09 - 06:35 PM (#2779027) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Bill D 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 06:39 PM (#2779030) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: pdq 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 06:49 PM (#2779042) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: SINSULL 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 07:24 PM (#2779062) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Bee-dubya-ell 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 07:33 PM (#2779064) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: pdq Here is another supplier with a good selection, based in New York... "nuts on the net" |
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02 Dec 09 - 07:57 PM (#2779080) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Ed T 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:) |
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02 Dec 09 - 08:18 PM (#2779089) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Q (Frank Staplin) Piñon, pinyon; Pinus edulis, of the American southwest: Pinus edulis |
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02 Dec 09 - 08:22 PM (#2779091) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Janie I miss having a pecan tree in the backyard. |
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02 Dec 09 - 08:23 PM (#2779093) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Q (Frank Staplin) Most Asian pine nuts are from the Korean pine. |
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02 Dec 09 - 08:53 PM (#2779103) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: pdq 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. |
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02 Dec 09 - 09:54 PM (#2779126) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Don Firth 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 |
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03 Dec 09 - 02:28 AM (#2779237) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: VirginiaTam 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. |
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03 Dec 09 - 12:11 PM (#2779670) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: GUEST,leeneia 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. |
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03 Dec 09 - 05:06 PM (#2779968) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: olddude 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 |
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03 Dec 09 - 05:47 PM (#2779993) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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03 Dec 09 - 05:57 PM (#2780003) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Donuel turn em into butter in the blender and spread on a nice toasted Challa slice. |
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03 Dec 09 - 05:58 PM (#2780005) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Uncle_DaveO 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 |
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03 Dec 09 - 07:39 PM (#2780098) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Gurney 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? |
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04 Dec 09 - 11:56 AM (#2780589) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: GUEST,leeneia 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. |
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04 Dec 09 - 12:46 PM (#2780622) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: GUEST,number 6 "Nuts !" ..... General Anthony McAuliffe biLL |
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04 Dec 09 - 04:57 PM (#2780848) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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04 Dec 09 - 05:59 PM (#2780895) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Bill D 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.... |
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26 Dec 09 - 01:57 PM (#2796782) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: gnu 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.) |
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27 Dec 09 - 01:24 AM (#2797043) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Little Hawk Puzzled German officer (to interpreter): "Is that a positive or a negative reply?" |
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27 Dec 09 - 02:52 PM (#2797418) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Mrs.Duck WE have walnuts, Brazils, almonds, cob nuts, peanuts and cashews. I also have cheesy balls. |
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27 Dec 09 - 05:49 PM (#2797514) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: catspaw49 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 |
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28 Dec 09 - 03:02 AM (#2797643) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Zhenya 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.) |
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28 Dec 09 - 11:42 AM (#2797785) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Andy Jackson 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 |
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28 Dec 09 - 05:30 PM (#2798004) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Little Hawk That is almost unbelievable. Who the hell would attempt to eat the shell of a Brazil nut? |
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28 Dec 09 - 05:41 PM (#2798016) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: gnu A hog? |
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28 Dec 09 - 06:57 PM (#2798047) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Andy Jackson 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. |
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29 Dec 09 - 10:57 AM (#2798484) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: lefthanded guitar A southern friend of mine is always taking me to task for the way we Yankees pronounce: pecan. I love nuts, and gave them up when I was in weight watchers years ago, at their suggestion: WRONG MOVE. Not only are they delicious and filling (in SMALL handfuls) but they are healthy! Healthy as chocolate and blueberries, and lovely in a snack entwining all three. THANK THE LORD that something I like is healthy - lmao. And I've slowly, but steadily, been losing weight as I've incorporated nuts in my diet. (Of course, laying off the Big Macs did no harm either ;D ) Walnuts are probably best for the heart. But I love Brazil nuts, Macadamias, cashews, filberts, really just about any nut. btw Peanuts, as may have been mentioned, are not really a nut, they are a legume. I love them best when FRESH in the shell, and untoasted, which I can always find in roadside stands in Virginia, North Carolina, etc. but not up here. |
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29 Dec 09 - 04:36 PM (#2798769) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: GUEST,Little Hawk's Dachshund I noticed the title of this thread. Good subject. Anybody seen mine? |
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29 Dec 09 - 04:44 PM (#2798776) Subject: RE: BS: NUTS! From: Donuel awww did they get ground off by the sidewalk. poor doggie. The perfectly roasted nut is so tender its like butter with a subtle crunch. The search for the perfect nut can be relentless. Until you get that one or two sour bitter and spoiled nuts that makes you spit out the revolting pieces. Those rotten nuts serve as my will power. |