Comments on: Dear Mark: Seasons for Nuts and Seeds?

By: Penny Frazier

Penny Frazier — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:57:09 +0000

The boom is back in the American pine nuts. The global price of pine nuts went through the roof, making it feasible to produce a shelled pine nut product in the U.S. We hope to have several tons available soon. But, the rising pine nut prices have really brought us a new market for the Jumbo Great Basin Soft shell pine nut because it is fairly easy to shell. Nice work

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By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:50:25 +0000

Thank you so much for the informative links on the seasonal availability of nuts, seeds, and other produce. I stopped by two local supermarket chains today to buy nuts. The first sells Diamond walnuts, pecans, and mixed nuts, shelled and unshelled. The shelled expire in Sept. 2010, the unshelled in 2009. I’m guessing the unshelled are left over from last season. Out of nuts, I bought a few bags of the shelled since they’re probably fresher. At the second store, they sell only shelled walnuts and pecans from Back to Nature. Some expire next month, Oct. 2008, and are probably from last season while others expire next year.

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By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:26:47 +0000

My parents in Louisiana had a huge pecan tree and they’d pick the pecans, crack’em open, and vacuum pack with a seal a meal for maximum freshness.

I say they “had” because Hurricane Gustav uprooted their pecan tree and other huge trees and threw the trees across the field on the other side of the pasture. It also destroyed my parents vegetable garden, pear and plum trees.
My favorite nut is almonds!

By: Joe Matasic

Joe Matasic — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:52:16 +0000

I normally use pistachios in my pesto instead of pine nuts. I always have them on hand and they’re much cheaper. Caught that tip from Alton Brown. Everyone loves the pesto and no one noticed the difference.

Though we did make a dry jack, walnut pesto this weekend and the wife insisted on following the directions and using pine nuts so those are now in the freezer. Think I’ll use the leftover pesto to top some grilled chicken.

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:26:31 +0000

Do pine nuts really go bad that fast? I eat them all the time, and they’ve never tasted bad or rancid to me. But then I doubt I’ve ever had any that were totally fresh, mine come in a big bag from Sam’s Club because it’s hella cheaper.

I hate to think I’ve been eating bad nuts, but I worry it about it fairly often because I keep seeing things about how quickly nuts spoil. Any nuts I get are from a regular store, although walnuts grow well around here so maybe I should check at the farmers market this week…

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:36:39 +0000

Thank you for the wealth of information. I see that walnuts, a versatile favorite, have a long harvest season. Is this for the more commonly sold English walnuts?

By: Son of Grok

Son of Grok — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:12:14 +0000

Correction… it was Pinon nuts that we used to harvest.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:04:25 +0000

Also, on the pine nut issue, almond slivers make a great substitute for pine nuts in recipes. I mainly use the almond slivers over pine nuts just because they are much less expensive!