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Hailstorms cause pesto shortage in Italy
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| Aug 21, 2006
Posted on 08/22/2006 1:58:24 PM PDT by nuconvert
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To: Trajan88
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posted on
08/22/2006 5:54:45 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: nuconvert
Ahhhhh... you're right!
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posted on
08/22/2006 5:58:41 PM PDT
by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
To: nuconvert
They use hail cannons in the apple and peach orchards across the road and cross lots from where we live.
Sounds like a 155mm artillery piece. They have four hail cannons - you get used to them. But we have never had hail since they have had the cannons in place.
More here: http://www.hailcannon.com/index.html
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posted on
08/22/2006 5:59:21 PM PDT
by
Fury
To: alli133
Must be George Bush's fault! The Bush-Rove Weather Generatortm misfired.
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posted on
08/22/2006 5:59:42 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
08/22/2006 5:59:50 PM PDT
by
Babu
To: Fury
They use them in farming areas here sometimes too.
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:01:19 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: nuconvert
Pretty loud aren't they? It's interesting to hear the charge of compressed air shoot up into the atmosphere. They haven't gone off much this summer - maybe ~3-4 times...
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:05:07 PM PDT
by
Fury
To: nuconvert
Whenever I make pesto, I make a bunch, then divvy it up into tiny tupperware containers and freeze it. It freezes very well.
A great quick meal from the freezer. Put a large pot of water on the fire. Remove Italian sausages and pesto from freezer. Thaw sausages in microwave.
Thaw pesto in water bath.
Roast sausages in toaster oven.
Cook pasta in salty water, al dente, of course.
Toss some mixed greens with viniagrette.
Toss cooked pasta with pesto and a little pasta water.
Serve.
Less than 30 minutes.
Don't forget the wine!
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:07:12 PM PDT
by
MistrX
To: nuconvert
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:07:20 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(Ninety-six days (counting up))
To: nuconvert
I'll have to send friends in Genoa a care package of my basil: enormous bounty this year.
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:07:57 PM PDT
by
eleni121
(General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
To: MistrX
Mama Mia pizzeria!
The simple things are best.
(BTW- no Chinese pignioli nuts...the Italian are the best but hard to find)
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:10:33 PM PDT
by
eleni121
(General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
To: nuconvert
The missus and I grow our own basil. You can clip it down and and it will grow back like grass. to We put up some of our own pesto sause this summer to enjoy over the next year. I frankly don't see how one kind of basil is any better than any other.
To: MistrX
All this talk of food is making me hungry.
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:12:56 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: LSAggie
It's been so hot here in the Midwest that my basil is just about finished, but I'll be using every last basil leaf I can.
Don't know where you are located but I just planted my third crop. I can have it well into late October here in Wisconsin!
To: nuconvert
"I have experimented making pesto with more than 60 varieties, and this is the best one." I admire this man's dedication.
60 varieties of basil alone.
Then, all those many varieties of so many types of garlic.
Add to that, all the different varieties and regional variations of pine nuts.
Oh, and the humongous number of varietals of olive oil...
THEN come the permutations of combining the various "best of the bests", followed by the testing of the infinitude of various proportions of each.
It is amazing he was able to accomplish all of this, in one life time, what with all the OTHER foods he had to so extensively test, which he oh, so carefully prepares.
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:37:15 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: LSAggie
I'm going to try growing basil indoors this winter....might be good for a leaf or two.
To: Charles Henrickson
Didn't Alkaline play with Pesto on the Tigers in the 50's?
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:49:27 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Johnny Pesto, #7)
To: eleni121
the Italian are the best but hard to find Northern California digger pine, preferably Shasta or Modoc County any day. If you can find either the Canby 1958, Hat Creek 1963, or especially, Nubieber 1965, you are in for pine nut ecstasy!
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:54:40 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: All
Pesto made with Italian parsley is delicious, if you can't get basil.
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:58:20 PM PDT
by
nycgal
To: Thinkin' Gal; nuconvert; basil; pesto; dighton; martin_fierro; Lijahsbubbe; Charles Henrickson
It's alimentary.
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posted on
08/22/2006 7:06:40 PM PDT
by
aculeus
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