>Richard Periut Writes:
>
>>Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote:
>>>Julia Altshuler wrote:
>>>
>>>>Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>If you can't get pine nuts, you can substitute the same quantity of
>>>>chopped walnuts and get perfectly satisfactory (IMHO) but different
>>>>pesto. You may even prefer walnuts, or alternate if you have both
>>>>available.
>>>
>>>
>>>My experience with substituting walnuts for pine nuts in pesto was that
>>>the walnuts turned the pesto an ugly grey-brown color while the pine
>>>nuts kept it a beautiful bright green. Both were frozen for several
>>>months. The color change happened almost immediately.
>>>
>>
>> I agree. The pine nuts have almost no effect on the color, which is
>> dominated by the basil. I didn't find the brown ugly though.
Pesto is a waste of good pine nuts... only some dumb WOP would think to blend
perfectly good pine nuts with basil, a virtual worthless weed that grows like
hay.
Pine nuts are best eaten whole, baked into cookies. Pesto is best made with
cheap goobers, and used for hog slop.
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