Favorite Nut

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 11:18pm

Walnut. Yours?

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 11:19pm

pistachio.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 11:20pm

Almond Cashew Macadamia

[Madcap Maisie]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 11:20pm

cashews...

and pecans. BUT only when they are in mixed nuts and have all the yummy seasoning stuck in them

but mainly cashews

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 11:21pm

To clarify, I meant the all-natural, white pistachio nut...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i9Mcj-pUaI

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 11:22pm

Alan Simpson, the former Senator from Wyoming. Rotten, but so funny!

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 11:32pm

I'd like to eat a lot of salted cashews but I don't, so I eat a lot of pistachios and walnuts.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:06am

Jane, it's completely impossible for me not to think that's your current avatar talking.

[Madcap Maisie]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:08am

haha I thought the same thing!

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:21am

Haha, I didn't even think of it!

[Radiana]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 4:56am

Sorry but I have a few favorites. Cashews, Brazil and Macadamian.
Pecans but only in pie.

[artscallion]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 9:50am

Pecans (but only if they're toasted,) pine nuts and brazil nuts. Though I firmly believe my attraction to them comes from their scarcity in the cans of mixed nuts I had to share with my siblings. I always want things more if they're difficult to come by.

Botanically speaking, most of what we think of as nuts are actually not nuts at all. They're seeds. Now all nuts are seeds. But all seeds are not nuts. The difference being that Nuts are both the seed and the fruit, and cannot be separated, like chestnuts. Whereas seeds come from fruit, and can be removed from the fruit, like almonds, cashews, walnuts, brazil nuts, pine nuts aand pistachios, which were once inside fruit. And peanuts are legumes, not nuts.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 9:53am

Honey-roasted peanuts. They're pretty much candy, not nuts.

[kooky]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 9:57am

M E !

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 10:14am

Walnuts.

[blondebaby589]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 10:18am

Walnuts and cashews. Yum!

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 10:19am

Artscallion, you're just a PLETHORA of nut information!

[clever name]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 10:19am

macadamia. YUM!!

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 10:46am

i can't choose. it's like picking between donnie and marie.

[Weez]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 1:23pm

Cruel.

Or cashews...

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 4:30pm

For those of you who said pecans, I have a yummy recipe. I'm making some now to put out with drinks for our friends tomorrow night.

3 cups halved pecans
1/3 cup butter
2 T. Worstershire
1 1/2 t. garlic salt
1/2 t. seasoned salt
1/2 t. cumin
1/2 t. chili powder
1/8 t. cayenne
coarse salt

Preheat oven to 350.

Over med-low heat, melt butter. (in large saucepan) Add worsteshire, garlic salt, seasoned salt, cumin, chili powder and cayenne and simmer for about 5 minutes. Add nuts, and stir until it's all coated.

Spread on baking sheet, and bake for 15-20 minutes, stirring after 10. When you take it out, sprinkle generously with the salt. Let it cool completely and store in a tupperware container.

eta: I forgot to put where to put the worstershire. It goes in the butter when the spices go in. I'll send art a pm!

Updated On: 12/30/08 at 04:30 PM

[artscallion]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 4:47pm

I just imported that into my recipe program, StockardFan. I have some pecans on hand to make this for tomorrow night.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 4:53pm

Hazelnuts aka Filberts

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 5:01pm

Oh good, artscallion! Let me know how you like them! Mine are cooling right now and the kitchen smells so yummy!

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 5:07pm

Every once in a while, I like a nice prickly NUT.