Re: [CH] Any ideas for salvaging these pecans?
Elise Lutrick (eliselutrick@usa.net)
Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:49:59 -0600
Just a few suggestions:
1) Use them to cover a cheese ball made with an a strongly flavored cheese.
2) Chop and use to top a salad made from strongly flavored mixed greens and
fruit such as grapefruit or mango and rings of spicy red onion and red bell
peppers. Add some seafood if you like. A local restaurant here serves a
spinach salad topped with sauteed crawfish and a handful of fresh flavorful
vegetables. A liberal amount of a sweet, spicy mixed nut is sprinkled over the
top. It is awesome.
3) Add a goodly amount of them to a smoked chicken or tuna salad, made with
fat seedless grapes, diced sweet onion, sliced celery (for crunch) and enough
good quality mayonnaise to bind it all together. A local diner near the
medical school here makes a tuna salad like this, and you have to be really
early to get a serving--it goes that fast...
Good luck!
Elise
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Received: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:48:13 PM CST
From: "ChileBuzz" <chilebuzz@earthlink.net>
To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Subject: [CH] Any ideas for salvaging these pecans?
> I have a pound of recipe-gone-wrong spiced pecans I'd like to salvage.
> Anyone know of a recipe to use a LOT of pecans? I was thinking of
> something like a pecan pie --but NOT the one with the sweet-sweet-sweet
> karo syrup filling-- only because it would use a lot, but a savory dish
> would be welcome, too.
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> I tried a recipe for spiced nuts and it didn't turn out that well.
> 'Course, I didn't follow the recipe exactly, either, so can't put the fault
> there.
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> Recipe called for 1/4 cup of a specific commercial chile powder blend plus
> 1/2 tsp cayenne, neither of which I had. So I mixed up almost half and
> half of Jim's New Mexican and Jim's Chile de Arbol, plus a little dark red
> ancho (aging powder from something like McCormicks whatever), plus a little
> pasilla powder I discovered after mixing the rest. Something of a b*stard
> blend, if you will. Probably not a nice thing to do to those chile
> powders. (sorry, Jim). There was some sugar in the mix, but the nuts
> aren't very sweet. I didn't want this first batch to be all that hot, so I
> restrained myself from using chipotle or savina. Huh! I was so successful
> at reducing the heat, these things may as well not be called spicy, in my
> opinion.
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> Think I slightly overcooked them, too, which means probably should not put
> them in the oven again unless they are in something wet! LOL. They taste
> "okay," but, honestly, not good enough to enjoy munching as a snack. On
> the other hand, they are not so bad that I want to pitch them. The pecans
> alone cost $7. My cheap side insists I try to make something edible out of
> them.
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> Any ideas, anyone? I know we have lots of great cooks on this list.
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> CBuzz
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