If I show you mine will you show me yours?

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In an effort to eat more nuts, I made this potato and cashew curry and lo it was good.


Do you have other good nut recipes? Will you please share?
Sweet or savoury, I don't mind. I promise to try it but reserve the right to substitute ingredients if the recipe you find is full of stuff I don't like/can't eat.

I'm still looking for a good pecan pie recipe, so if you've got one of those I'd love to hear it.

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There's a vaguely Jamie Oliver based pesto that I sometimes make where you put almonds, cherry tomatoes, and plenty of raw garlic, chilli and fresh basil in a blender, and then eat it with pasta. Depending on the exact proportions you might or might not need olive oil, but I find that enough oil comes out of the almonds to make it a sensible consistency. IIRC Jamie wants you to do something slightly complicated involving blanching the pesto with the pasta water, but I find that makes it way too watery, and it's fine to just drain the pasta in the normal way and mix the sauce in with the hot pasta, that cooks it quite enough.

If you want more protein, grated parmesan or equivalent hard cheese is friends with the pesto. And / or you can use it as a sauce for pasta with fake chicken chunks, instead of just a sauce for plain pasta.

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*nod* I do that sometimes, make pesto but vary up the nuts and herbs. I don't tend to use cherry tomatoes, though, which is the difference between this and my normal cooking.
Jamie Oliver does tend to cook ab it like me, though ,I always find his recipes a bit boring for that reason.

Atm I don't have a blender good enough for making pesto, though, so I just use commercial or chop everything and call it deconstructed. I did promise, so I'll do it exactly as you say when I sort out a blender.