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January 22, 2009 7:44 pm at 7:44 pm #643778feivelParticipant
legumes right?
ever notice the sturdy corrugated construction of the shell? light yet strong, like cardboard. took a genius to finally come up with the idea for cardboard. evolution did it with just a few hundred accidents.
oh yes, so how do you get to the nut without great effort and making a mess? evolution thought of placing a seam all around the shell so that a slight pressure would open it cleanly. how kind of evolution.
and the peanuts come all wrapped up in beautiful red paper to enhance the eating pleasure.
then comes the lovely unique taste, and the proteins, sugars, antioxidants, vitamins, starches, oils.
Chasdei Hashem!!
January 22, 2009 7:48 pm at 7:48 pm #643779CuriousMembersmh1 – but they’d crack their teeth tryng to get it open!
Which is stronger an acorn or pistachio shell?
January 22, 2009 7:49 pm at 7:49 pm #643780squeakParticipantchuck, the line about the kiddush was supposed to tip you off to the joke without spoiling it completely.
January 22, 2009 8:19 pm at 8:19 pm #643781charlie brownMembersorry for killing it, squeak.
January 22, 2009 9:06 pm at 9:06 pm #643782syriansephardiMemberModerators have deleted this and similar posts of yours repeatedly over the last day or so. Please do not complain that your posts are not seeing the light of day when you keep posting the same thing over and over again thinking that you will get different results. The post is considered a prying post – in other words you are trying to get personal information from someone. YW Moderator-72
January 22, 2009 9:09 pm at 9:09 pm #643783CuriousMemberevolution thought of placing a seam all around the shell so that a slight pressure would open it cleanly
I didn’t know that evolution had brains and that it/he/she thought through all of its actions…
January 22, 2009 9:12 pm at 9:12 pm #643784smh1Memberi’m not a squirrel expert, but i’m pretty sure they can handle a pistacio nut, even a toughie. why not try it and let us know?
January 22, 2009 9:42 pm at 9:42 pm #643785areivimzehlazehParticipantsyrian- let’s hook up. Check out what one of the mods (the one that choses to stay anonymous) wrote to me on the Carlebach thread.
We need to create a support group- I need therapy for this kind of bashing
January 22, 2009 10:12 pm at 10:12 pm #643786RoshYeshivahMemberFeivel are you this Brilliant-out of touch with reality- type of guy? I mean pike fish, wasps surgery, and here with nuts.Some of your posts are brilliant but way out of touch.
January 22, 2009 10:47 pm at 10:47 pm #643787coke not pepsiMemberso do u people like salted or unsalted nuts? i personally think unsalted are tasteless
January 22, 2009 10:54 pm at 10:54 pm #643788syriansephardiMemberMod 72 no I’m not!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t live near moish to (want to) figure it out!!!!!!!
January 22, 2009 11:00 pm at 11:00 pm #643790syriansephardiMemberAreivemzelaze: Ha k one second. N they’re so mean to me always 🙁
January 22, 2009 11:05 pm at 11:05 pm #643791syriansephardiMemberAreivem: wow they’re so tough!! Hook up and do what?
January 22, 2009 11:12 pm at 11:12 pm #643793feivelParticipantRY
out of touch with what?
what reality?
did you learn the Shaar Bchina in Chovos HaLavos?
are you familiar, do you understand what Rabbi Avigdor Miller, tz’l said so often?
January 22, 2009 11:18 pm at 11:18 pm #643794charlie brownMembersyrian,
he said he meant group therapy. Lets not veer in a direction that will get this thread shut down.
January 22, 2009 11:44 pm at 11:44 pm #643795areivimzehlazehParticipantsyrian- what’s the question? hook and make a support group
January 23, 2009 1:16 am at 1:16 am #643797Itzik_sMemberBS”D
Hashem created the shell that way so that human beings, who are tachlis habriyah, could easily find a way to open it and therefore make the nutrients and taste of the pistachio easily accessible. This has nothing to do with careless, amoral evolution and the survival of the fittest.
(It is interesting that when Khomeini YMS took over in Iran, which I remember very well, the US pistachio supply was not interrupted for very long as first California and then I believe Turkey took up the slack).
January 23, 2009 1:45 am at 1:45 am #643798syriansephardiMemberCharlie brown: BELIEVE ME I did NOT mean what u thought I meant at ALL!!!! Lol don’t worry
Areivem:let’s do it!
January 23, 2009 3:13 am at 3:13 am #643799chasid-of-HashemMemberHi fellow nut jobs- I am the niece of the aformentioned (on page one) niece and uncle reunion. I figured out that he was my uncle based on the content of his posts and what interests him. We had a good laugh when we made the connection, though! Oh- and it was all done without breaching any personal boundries on YWN.
January 23, 2009 3:31 am at 3:31 am #643800RoshYeshivahMemberFEivel I’m convinced that you’re really into these things.Kol hakavod i take back my words.
January 23, 2009 3:53 am at 3:53 am #643801asdfghjklParticipantchasid-of-Hashem: ha that’s really funny!!! i think i remember who your uncle is actually!!!
January 23, 2009 5:09 am at 5:09 am #643803feivelParticipantcurious, itzik
i thought my facetiousness was glarlngly obvious
im sorry, i guess i was wrong, i thought the phrase “Chasdei Hashem” was a giveaway, no?
January 23, 2009 5:18 am at 5:18 am #643804CuriousMemberOK feivel, you win.
January 23, 2009 5:21 am at 5:21 am #643805Itzik_sMemberBS”D
Feivel – I was 90% sure you were being facetious but I wanted to be sure no one who is wavering would take the post as an endorsement of evolution.
January 23, 2009 5:22 am at 5:22 am #643806mazal77Participantand now back to our Fisto thread, give em to the kids, and let them have a nut cracking contest and let them try to open them (without using teeth or the baby’s head, ouch) shoes, hammers, books, dolls,(just not porcelain) are allowed and may the best nutcracker win!!
January 23, 2009 7:17 am at 7:17 am #643807amichaiParticipantwell about the nuts, i would throw them out. you would not use a hammer etc,as someone posted because it’ll cost you more $ to get to the emergency room where you will be with a broken thumb and fingers than it would cost you to buy some more decent nuts. as for our friends in the peanut comics, i think charle brown would for sure give up, before he even started. sally would pound them quite hard on charlie’s head to get them open. snoopy would be on his dog house waiting for his dinner. and shcroeder of course, would be at the piano. good luck with the nuts whatever you decide to do with them.
January 23, 2009 5:08 pm at 5:08 pm #643808charlie brownMembersyriansephardi,
I apologize!
January 24, 2009 11:10 pm at 11:10 pm #643809Itzik_sMemberBS”D
The local home center (like Home Depot) sells pistachios and other snacks at a little stand/cafe inside the store. I just had to go out there after havdala and I overheard a lady tell her husband: “Ivan, look these pistachios are half-open and our kids will never eat them. Can you go to the hardware store and get some glue so I can stick them back together?”
With a straight face, I recommended a certain glue (2 part epoxy for any do it yourselfers out there) to them and they thanked me!
January 25, 2009 5:01 am at 5:01 am #643810oomisParticipantGet a nutcracker and make the effort to open the silly nuts. Pistachio nuts are absolutely yummy, very healthful, and make the best flavor ice cream around.
January 25, 2009 5:15 am at 5:15 am #643811mazal77ParticipantMy favorite flavor as well. In my chalav stam days, nothing beat a pistachio soft serve ice cream from Carvel. Just wanted to know why they put almonds in the ice cream though and never actual pistachio nuts in it. I think I figured it out. They got only pistachios that they couldn’t open.
April 29, 2009 4:12 pm at 4:12 pm #643812JewessMemberAmes, baklawa is good with walnuts but it’s even better with pistachios and that’s how I like to make it. Walnuts are cheaper, but pistachios are worth the price, I think.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure if the salmonella issue was over or not…
April 29, 2009 4:38 pm at 4:38 pm #643813seeallsidesParticipantanybody have the recipe for pistachio chicken?
They serve it at Ateres Avrohom and it’s delicious!
April 29, 2009 4:48 pm at 4:48 pm #643814feivelParticipant* 1 cup raw unsalted pistachios
* 2 cups (packed) fresh cilantro leaves
* 4 teaspoons fresh lemon juice, divided
* 1 garlic clove, chopped
* 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
* 3/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup plus 5 tablespoons olive oil, divided
* 4 large chicken breast halves with skin and ribs attached
Preparation
Using fingers, gently loosen skin from 1 side of each chicken breast, forming pocket. Spread 1 tablespoon pesto evenly under skin of each. Sprinkle chicken generously with salt and pepper.
Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in heavy large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken, skin side down. Cook until skin is dark golden, about 5 minutes. Turn chicken over and transfer skillet to oven. Roast chicken until cooked through, about 25 minutes.
Place 1/2 cup remaining pesto into small bowl. Whisk in remaining 1/4 cup olive oil and remaining 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Drizzle pesto sauce over chicken breasts and serv
April 29, 2009 6:24 pm at 6:24 pm #643815oomisParticipantOH YUM!!! Thank you, Feivel.
April 29, 2009 6:49 pm at 6:49 pm #643816feivelParticipantthank “epicurious.com”
April 29, 2009 8:32 pm at 8:32 pm #643817oomisParticipantthanks, Epicurious.com.
April 30, 2009 5:48 pm at 5:48 pm #643818mazal77ParticipantThis sounds good, maybe we should post it in the “what are you cooking for Shabbos” Thread!!
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