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Chestnuts: Choosing, Roasting, Boiling, and Storing

Posted on:: May 22, 2011
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Choosing Chestnuts: Chestnuts are available from October through March with the peak being the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. Cooked and shelled chestnuts can be purchased and are available in sealed jars and left unopened will last up to a year. . If chestnuts from jar are too firm when opened add water and steam them for a few [...]

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Chestnuts

Posted on:: May 22, 2011
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The American chestnut is native to a large area of the United States and its range covers more than 200 million acres from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. Uses of the American Chestnut goes to pre-Colombian times when the Indians ate the nuts raw or pounded, boiled them to make lumps of [...]

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Brazil Nuts

Posted on:: May 16, 2011
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Brazil nuts, also called cream nuts and para nuts, are large shelled seeds of the Brazil Nut tree. It is a giant green evergreen tree indigenous to the Amazon forest of South America. The tree may reach a height of 100 to 150 feet with a trunk diameter of four to eight feet. The crown [...]

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Pine Nuts

Posted on:: May 6, 2011
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Pine Nuts are sometimes called seeds and are also called pignoli and pinon come from pine trees in China, Italy, Mexico. North Africa and from the southwestern United States. Pine nuts resemble corn kernels and look like small, flat, cream colored seeds. Those coming from China are triangular and those from Italy are more slender [...]

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Cashews: A Delicious Treat

Posted on:: November 28, 2010
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Cashews are one of the most popular nuts in the world. They are eaten raw, roasted, flavored, salted and unsalted. Cashews are one of those snacks that once you have just one you want to have a few more and even more after that. So just what is it that makes these little nuts taste [...]

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