[Sca-cooks] Another ME question

[cldyroz at aol.com]

Good afternoon! 
Gee, can you tell I am new at this, or what?
 
Anyway, here is today's question;
 
In preparing Hais, it calls for ground pastachios. All I can find are the roasted and salted kind. the Almonds in the recipe are raw, so I would think the pastachios should be, as well. 
I am also having serious issues over the price ($10 a lb). This is a nut we do not like, and if I buy what is available on the market, (which is by one pound packaging) there is a lot of waste happening. 
 
Walnuts, I do have on hand, in plenty, and they are more or less free (i.e.-already paid for, 'left-overs' from a mundane project).
 
Would walnuts work in Hais?
 
Thank you!!!
 
Helen
Only two and half weeks till Fighters' Collegium and the Queen's Rapier Champion Tourney...time to get cracking....