come and help me with my nuts

[Cappuccino]

I've managed to collect a cupboard full of nuts (I was in a 'I will eat a handful of nuts a day' phase but it never got off the ground)

brazils, cashews, walnuts, pine nuts... some of them getting less crunchy by the minute

I have a nut roast recipe in a book but it specifies hazelnuts - can I just substitute?

in the summer I was grinding them up and flinging them in flapjacks but now the kids are back at school they can't take nuts in their lunchboxes

any ideas?

[hoxtonchick]

yes, i'd use them all in your nut roast. grind them up first perhaps? but not the pine nuts, i'd sprinkle those both through the mixture and onto of it.

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

Cappo - I would happily grind the nuts and use as a hazlenut substitute.

If it's horrid well at least you tried.

Not that I think it will be horrid.

[slinks back under rock]

[savoycabbage]

Make pesto out of the pine nuts.

I put cashew nuts in stir fry sometimes. Just beef or chicken, mange tout or broccoli. Soy sauce, oyster sauce and the nuts.

[Cappuccino]

oh that does sound nice

the stirfry thing

and pesto you say... that would be a bit impressive eh?

[savoycabbage]

Someone on MN told me you can freeze fresh pesto so I did that the last time I did it and it was great.