What is your favorite kind of nut?
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March 2nd, 2015
This question was based upon @Mimishu1995’s Q about Walnuts
What is your favorite nut and in what dishes and recipes do you like to have those nuts? Link to recipes if you’ve got some.
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I love nuts, pretty much all nuts, but I’d say my top 3 favorites are pistachios, cashews, and macadamia nuts.
It’s time for bed now, so I’ll post some recipes tomorrow, but I shall leave you with this sweet dream, Sweet and Smoky Nut Brittle
I would say it’s a tossup between walnuts and raw almonds. Trader Joe’s sells raw almonds and there’s such a big difference between the raw ones and roasted ones. I also have a big bag of pecans which can be good for baking, like walnuts. I rarely bake. All the nuts are stored in the refrigerator or freezer.
Pistachios, cashews, honey roasted peanuts, and any sweet version of a pecan.
My favorite nuts are almonds and the newly added walnuts! I eat all of them plain. My family only likes almonds. They find walnuts disgusting and can’t understand why I can love them.
Too bad those nuts aren’t cheap here. Walnuts are rare here and so far I only know one place that sells walnuts.
Almonds are my all time favorite. I can’t eat many at once, they tear up my digestive tract. I also like walnuts, pecans, pistachios, and cashews. Peanuts are ok if you are counting them (they aren’t really nuts).
I don’t like macadamia or Brazil nuts.
Pistachios, by far. I eat them all the time. A bag of roasted unsalted pistachios is a constant presence in my kitchen.
I like every single nut I’ve ever tried. I like them plain, no salt or sugar. And I’ll eat them in pretty much anything, but mostly I enjoy them on their own.
It’s so hard to pick. Probably almonds. I keep peanuts around as a snack, and love chestnuts, but I don’t know if those are even nuts. For any nut, I like them very lightly roasted and never salted.
Cashews, walnuts, filberts (hazelnuts), almonds, peanuts in that order. I get an unlimited supply of black walnut and hickory nuts from the trees around my house. However, they are too messy and too much work to open. I must use vice grips for additional leverage to crack them. The filbert nuts from my neighbor are much easier to open.
Most of ‘em, especially the assorted selection from Planters.
The sexy flirtacious fun kind.
I forgot hazelnuts until I read @LuckyGuy‘s answer. So good with chocolate.
What I like best about nuts in my food is that I like texture and roughage. Nuts in cake, nuts on brownies, nuts in oatmeal, nuts in bread, nuts in cookies, nuts in yogurt, nuts in much of my food. Nuts daily.
I think I am kind of a nut nut, if you can understand that. I have not ever found a nut I didn’t like, from true tree nuts (e.g., hazelnuts, brazilnuts, and walnut), to “pseudo-nuts”, such as peanuts (technically a legume, like peas or beans) and coconuts (which are technically drupes, as are coffee, many pit fruits, almonds, and pistachios).
Hazelnuts, pecans, almonds, English walnuts. All of them are even better when toasted, but it’s a tricky business avoiding burning them. ANYTHING baked screams at me to be packed with nuts, and after decades of practice, I can now turn out the best pecan waffles that God will allow!
I was going to say Tina Turner’s nutbush, but that thing is so dense, a boy could be gone for days.
My left one is my joke answer.
Otherwise, cashews.
Pistachio’s and Cashews; I catch my hand slipping unconsciously into the jar any time they are available, and will graze until they are gone.
Peanuts. I love ‘em glazed with something sweet or salty and savory. I got made fun of at my internship last summer for constantly having a big jar of peanuts on my desk and partaking frequently all through the day…yum.
@Mariah Peanuts are not technically nuts, but they might count for this Q, I don’t know. They certainly are categorized as nuts in the market, and the word but is in the name. I just thought I would mention it in case you or others didn’t know and might be interested. They are actually legumes.
I didn’t know!! Do they have some of the same nutrient content?
@Mariah I think so. It’s tricky. They are nuts for culinary purposes. It’s kind of like tomatoes are fruits, but we classify them as vegetables in every day language. I don’t know very much about any of it; what the rules are; but if you’re interested you might want to google it.
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