[Sca-cooks] Another ME question

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

>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.  
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I've made Hais several times with roasted pistacios.  They are really 
difficult to find raw.  But, it turns out just fine, darned yummy in 
fact, with the roasted ones.  I do rinse the salt off of them before 
using them.

As for the price... ouch.  I don't think I paid that much for the 
organic ones I used last time...  Sorry.  Can't help you there.

BTW, has anybody noticed the similarity between hais and Lara Bars?  :)

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Tara Sersen Boroson

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