What Kinds of Nuts Do You Like?

What Kinds of Nuts do You Like?

  • Walnuts

    Votes: 27 45.8%

  • Peanuts

    Votes: 32 54.2%

  • Macadamia Nuts

    Votes: 24 40.7%

  • Pistachio Nuts

    Votes: 34 57.6%

  • Almonds

    Votes: 27 45.8%

  • Pecans

    Votes: 30 50.8%

  • Hazelnuts

    Votes: 17 28.8%

  • Cashews

    Votes: 40 67.8%

  • Pine Nuts

    Votes: 12 20.3%

  • Other (please explain)

    Votes: 6 10.2%
  • Total voters
    59
All nuts with the exception of pine nuts
Heh, lived in the pines for the last five years, and watched the tree rats dine on cones
Never considered pine nuts for humans, with the exception of Euell Gibbons


The tree rats seemed to really enjoy them

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jujube said:
True story: Christmas 1965. I'm home from college and at a party. Oh, look at those lovely red nuts! I've never seen pistachios before but quickly fall in love. I eat A LOT. The next day, I use "the throne" and OMG, I'M BLEEDING TO DEATH!!! I go in hysterics to my mother and she asks me if I've eaten anything red, like red candy or red velvet cake. I remember the pistachios and my mother reassures me I'm not dying. Whew. It was a long time before I ate pistachios again and I never ate the red ones ever again.

Turkish halvah is made with a lot of pistachios in with the sesame paste. Great combination.
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Not ALL Turkish halvah is made with pistachios, lucky for me, since I'm allergic to them.
 
Cashews on the tree

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I don't think there's a type of nut I don't like. I'm most partial to raw nuts, mainly filberts, almonds, pecans, macadamias and walnuts. I used to love the holidays because that's when my mom would buy lots of nuts for us to crack and eat.
 
I like raw almonds, but only with dark chocolate & coffee.
I also like spicy cashews & regular roasted & lightly salted ones.
 
I eat pistachios all the time...I have a bag sitting next to me right now.

I also like chocolate covered almonds. I could never find ones with a decent chocolate on them, so I make my own. Basically buy any quality chocolate bar, melt in a double boiler, then dip raw almonds in it. WAY better than anything you can buy.

An interesting thing about nuts: I was reading about making chocolate covered almonds, and came across a tip that says to soak nuts for 24 hours, then dehydrate them. This makes them less "mealy." Apparently nuts (being a seed) when soaked release an enzyme that starts to break itself down so as to make the food more available to the plant. You dehydrate them to stop the process, but after only a day of soaking they are more edible.

Somehow this seems a cruel joke to me...don't know why. I've yet to try it, since I have no dehydrator. It's supposed to work for everything but cashews...I don't know why they are the exception.
 
I love all of them except I won’t eat the red dyed pistachio ones. Macadamia nuts really DO taste amazing with chocolate on them but most nuts do. I also love nut butters. They are great with frozen bananas to make healthy alternative to ice cream that actually tastes really good. Peanuts I try and stay away from since they bloat me. I seem to have a sensitivity to them. Pecans especially in a pie are heavenly and maple walnut . Yummm.
Food. It’s been an obsession lately. Lol
 
Just opened a packet of KP salted peanuts and I love the logo.......For nuts who are nuts about nuts. :giggle:
 
treeguy64 said:
Can't eat pistachios. My throat tightens, and I can't swallow. Scary, but not a deadly hazard, at least as I've experienced them......thus far.

All other nuts are good. I've dated a few, in my life, and, as I think of it, now, I was married to two of them!
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Not meaning to interfere, but have you had that checked out by a legitimate doctor?
All through my childhood I was told my father had that reaction to walnuts because he was "allergic" to them. He eventually learned it was due to a hernia in his esophagus- which, in turn, was due to an undiagnosed heart issue.
 

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