TWD DC Rewind: Pistachio-Berry Slims

July 31, 2018 at 12:01 am | Posted in cookies & bars, DC, groups, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 2 Comments
Tags: baking, berries, cookies, nuts

I’ve always thought of pistachios as “fancy” nuts. Hazelnuts and macadamias are also fancy nuts. Almonds and walnuts are regular nuts. Cashews are somewhere in between. I’m working on drawing up my nut hierarchy diagram for you…it’s actually very complex. Because for whatever reason I consider them fancy, I usually use pistachios sparingly. For Pistachio-Berry Slims, though, I had to go all out. (I admit that I briefly considered cutting the pistachios with half almonds, but then decided not to be so stingy.) These are chewy nut macaroons– no wheat flour, no dairy– just ground pistachios, sugar and egg whites, formed and baked into a log. They are further fancified with a trench of nice raspberry jam and fresh berries running through the middle. Sliced into dainty slims, these are lovely little cookies, to be eaten with pinkies up. As Dorie says in the recipe intro, no one needs to know they take 10 minutes to prepare.

For the recipe, see Dorie’s Cookies by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of this week’s rewind TWD Blogroll!

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Like my husband said, healthy cookies. Yours came out beautiful.

Comment by Diane Zwang— July 31, 2018 #

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I’d like to see that diagram 😉 but seriously, I agree – pine nuts and pistachios: so precious, so pricey! These look delicious.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:03 AM a whisk and a spoon wrote:

> steph (whisk/spoon) posted: ” I’ve always thought of pistachios as “fancy” > nuts. Hazelnuts and macadamias are also fancy nuts. Almonds and walnuts are > regular nuts. Cashews are somewhere in between. I’m working on drawing up > my nut hierarchy diagram for you…it’s actually very co” >

Comment by saffronandhoney— August 12, 2018 #

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