Sorry to disappoint you, msbelle!

Brazil nuts

They make my teeth squeak. I hate that!

Pecans and cashews are my favorite nuts. Raw for the former and salted/roasted for the cashews.

I especially love pecans in my faux cake. (nuts, dates, cocoa/carob/protein powder, with a little bit of water...to which I sometimes add candied ginger, mint flavoring, etc.)

It gives me the dessert feeling while being reasonably healthy. Very rich and satisfying.

No icky nut texture.

but I do miss those thunderstorms every many days. A lot.

Cass is me. Well, these days I bargain with nature for t-storms to not interrupt my swim, but I do miss the storms you could set a watch by, the smell of mesquite and creosote and wet ozone. I miss watching the wall approach and the air cooling and standing in the cold runoff in the gutters.

Right now, my parents are dreading the monsoons. Fires haven't been so bad in their area that they have serious flood concerns, but the bad freeze this winter killed a lot of vegetation . My parents are hauling off dumpsters of dead cuttings. Won't know until next spring really if some of the vegetation made it. Some of the massive 50ft pines are questionable, and some of their massive mexican elders have had to be pruned back to stumps. With that and the drought, monsoons bring lightning, lightning means more fires. It's going to be a rough monsoon season.

When I think of what the freeze did to their xeriscaped yard, it makes me want to cry. That's stuff that we planted largely in the first 5 years they lived there, so it is 15-20 years of growth. And it was gorgeous and native. And 2-4 days of seriously fucked up cold (froze utility plants, caused blackouts, loss of gas pressure) killed a lot of it. Thousands of dollars in their mere 1/3 acre. The smaller stuff is easier to replace. The big trees, nsm.

Jesse, did I submit a Batman link to the goodstuff tumblr?

Yeah, it should have posted by now, but I haven't gone to check...

I had drinks with a new friend tonight, and am now sweating like a pig and thinking about chocolate chips.

Gah, you guys, just reading all the nut talk makes me want macadamias!

(What? I *said* I was easily swayed.)

Awesome, an episode of Clean House is on. This show makes me feel so good about myself.

Jesse, did I submit a Batman link to the goodstuff tumblr?

OH MY GOD PRIDE BATMAN.

And ita's was even a different Batman!

Texture is why I don't like macadamia or Brazil nuts. But I like walnuts or almonds in most things. Cashews and pecans are hit or miss depending on the item. I avoid pine nuts since the dreaded pine nut mouth incident.

Wallybee and her parents have occasionally unearthed bags of pecans still in the shell. They're a bugger to pry out the edible bits, but so worth the effort.

I go for cashews, pecans and macadamias. The last item, of course, is a patriotic measure, macadamia nuts being the only native Australian crop of any wide commercial significance.

A whole OTHER Batman? This is the best day ever!