My wife is cooking up some ground beef. I want to try making lettuce
wraps with it, but most of the recipes I find online call for water
chestnuts, which we don't have.

My nut choices are all dry-roasted and unsalted: almonds, peanuts,
cashews. Which would you use?

Thanks.

-S-

San choy bau?

I'd use cashews. I've seen recipes with peanuts (and no water chestnuts), and with chestnuts. But I'd use cashews because I prefer them to peanuts. Chop them up or otherwise break them into small pieces.

Can also just leave them out; there are recipes without water chestnuts and without nuts. It works.

Steve Freides wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> My wife is cooking up some ground beef. I want to try making lettuce
> wraps with it, but most of the recipes I find online call for water
> chestnuts, which we don't have.
>
> My nut choices are all dry-roasted and unsalted: almonds, peanuts,
> cashews. Which would you use?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -S-

Hi Steve, they are not essential unless you like them that much but if
so, cashews would be the one to use.



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cshenk wrote:
> Steve Freides wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> My wife is cooking up some ground beef. I want to try making lettuce
>> wraps with it, but most of the recipes I find online call for water
>> chestnuts, which we don't have.
>>
>> My nut choices are all dry-roasted and unsalted: almonds, peanuts,
>> cashews. Which would you use?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -S-
>
> Hi Steve, they are not essential unless you like them that much but if
> so, cashews would be the one to use.
>
>
>
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:25:56 -0500, "Steve Freides" >
wrote:

> My wife is cooking up some ground beef. I want to try making lettuce
> wraps with it, but most of the recipes I find online call for water
> chestnuts, which we don't have.
>
> My nut choices are all dry-roasted and unsalted: almonds, peanuts,
> cashews. Which would you use?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -S-
>
Peanuts.

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sf

sf wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:25:56 -0500, "Steve Freides" >
> wrote:
>
>> My wife is cooking up some ground beef. I want to try making lettuce
>> wraps with it, but most of the recipes I find online call for water
>> chestnuts, which we don't have.
>>
>> My nut choices are all dry-roasted and unsalted: almonds, peanuts,
>> cashews. Which would you use?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -S-
>>
> Peanuts.
>
Ditto.

On 12/12/2015 4:39 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Hi Steve, they are not essential unless you like them that much but if
> so, cashews would be the one to use.
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She should call the cops. I've already publicly admitted it is me so
a conviction should be a piece of cake and then forging would stop.
So what's stopping her? I think she suffers from Bovism - she just
loves the attention and drama and screw the rest of the group.

-sw

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On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 5:39:29 PM UTC-6, cshenk wrote:
> Steve Freides wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
> > My wife is cooking up some ground beef. I want to try making lettuce
> > wraps with it, but most of the recipes I find online call for water
> > chestnuts, which we don't have.
> >
> > My nut choices are all dry-roasted and unsalted: almonds, peanuts,
> > cashews. Which would you use?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -S-
>
> Hi Steve, they are not essential unless you like them that much but if
> so, cashews would be the one to use.
>
Cashews, both for texture and flavor. Another sub for water chestnuts is
sunchokes, but you have to be careful not to cook them much or they get
mushy. They're very good for you if you're supplementing probiotics like
*Bifidobacteria*.
>
--Bryan

Steve Freides wrote:
> My wife is cooking up some ground beef. I want to try making lettuce
> wraps with it, but most of the recipes I find online call for water
> chestnuts, which we don't have.
>
> My nut choices are all dry-roasted and unsalted: almonds, peanuts,
> cashews. Which would you use?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -S-

I didn't get to make this as planned a few days ago, but tonight, since
most people recommended cashews, I took some leftovers - was ground
beef, tomatoe sauce, and a few veggies, guess we'd call it Sloppy Joe -
and threw in a handful of cashews. It was _delicious_. This is
something we'll revisit in our house in the future - beef and cashews
seems like a very good combination.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

-S-