Anybody know where to get PINE NUTS for cheap?

Yes, I wouldn't buy Chinese pine nuts. We get them down here cheaper from
Mexico, haven't checked the prices though...

Here are some price comparison for you
http://www.nextag.com/pine-nuts/products-html

You know what? I recently used nextag to check on tire prices and spent the next week staring at tire ads at the bottom of the page. It got kind of boring after awhile.

I agree - those suckers are expensive, but you don't have to use alot. I love them in salads and just suck it up and spend the money.

That's only things that other cultures must do, Ms O. Americans have a god given right to exploit the earth's resources as they see fit. Those same Americans are also charged with ensuring that everyone, except them, toes the line of probity, fairness and goodness.

Now to search local nurseries to see if I can find a small sized Pinus edulis, native here as we'd surmise. That would probably provide good contrast to my Forestiera neomexicana (new mexican olive). Hey, what zone are you in, Calamity? Sunset zones are 1 - 11 and 14 -21.. When I lived in Venice, I was in zone 24, but not very far inland was #21..

Oh I don't know about that, JTT.
I think many of us were conditioned (via various cooking "authorities" & authors of cookbooks) to think that pesto automatically meant pine nuts. I know I did, for quite a time. It was only when pine nuts became so expensive & their quality deteriorated at the same time, that I considered other alternatives. But till then, it was more a matter of ignorance of the alternatives for me. You live & learn about other ways of doing the same old things as you go.

I love cashew pestos.

I haven't done a cashew pesto yet, Deb. But you've inspired me!

typically, you only get a crop of pine nuts about every 6 years.

My former Sicilian neighbours made a mighty fine almond/basil pesto.

ahhhh Pesto trapanese

Walnut's also good, but almond mmmmm

we talked about almonds or pistachios. Maybe thats the key, try something really new and see what it tastes like. Weve got a whole bunch of basil bushes growing.

Check out pine nuts for sale in New Mexico. Later in the year, in addition to what you can buy in grocery stores, they are plentiful in farmers markets and it seems like every bare lot along the major streets have trucks with pine nuts for sales.

BBB

How much? Im just about convinced into trying EhbEths recipe.

Followed by an outbreak of Hanta virus.

you know how to keep from getting Hanta dont you?

Here's a recipe I found for walnut pesto. I haven't tried it with the spinach & rocket, but it sounds pretty good to me. I guess you could just leave them out & add more basil, if you prefer the pure basil taste. I'd probably add considerably more olive oil, but that's a matter of taste. :

Pasta with basil and walnut pesto

Ingredients:

2 cups fresh basil leaves
2 cups trimmed fresh spinach
1 cup trimmed rocket
1/3 cup walnut pieces
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
3 garlic cloves, peeled
1 tablespoon olive oil
370 g spaghettini or similar
fresh basil sprigs to garnish
1/2 lemon to serve

Preparation:

1. Place the basil, spinach and rocket in a colander. Wash the leaves well under cold running water. Shake to dry. Transfer the leaves to a food processor.
2. Add the walnuts, Parmesan cheese and garlic and process until finely chopped. With the machine still running, slowly drizzle the oil through the feed tube, processing until the pesto is thick.
3. Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to the packet directions; drain. Toss the pasta with the pesto in a large serving bowl until evenly coated. Garnish with the basil sprigs, squeeze the lemon juice over the pasta and serve.

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About 60 ft up a PINE TREE.

Read page 1, and then it hit me, maybe Trader Joe's has them reasonably, so i googled them and found they were at the price point FM was complaining about, and their nuts seem to be connected with a lot of the bitter-taste disturbance people are reporting for pine nuts, probably Chinese, according to google. Too bad, because I like a lot of Trader Joe's stuff. The bitter taste doesn't seem to be toxic, or from any contaminants that anyone has found, but it apparently occurs in nuts from a lot of different sources. So maybe alterna-pesto is the way to go for the next couple years, at least, until China gets a handle on their crop.

Please tell.

HArdly a statement theyd want on their "pine nut advertisement".

"TRY TRADER JOES PINE NUTS< THEYRE NON TOxIC


Roger:--Quit sticking deer mice down yer pants.