Hazelnuts

Morning ritual: sit on the rising sun side of the house and de-shell a small bin full of hazelnuts.  The bin is refilled from this bucket

No kidding, it really is a huge plant pot crossed with a builders plastic trug.  There were 4 of these full of hazelnuts. (There are no squirrels in New Zealand.) Fortunately for me Bro gave away 3/4 of them shortly after harvest last autumn.  I am trying to pay my rent in usefulness.  When I have finished the hazelnuts, there is a bucketful of walnuts to process.

I don't mind actually. It is quite a meditative activity. Repetitive. Restful. Refining the perfect technique. Calm. Very satisfying.

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  1. gz18 November 2024 at 08:37

    Don't possums eat nuts? Or just fruit

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    1. Tigger's Mum19 November 2024 at 16:24

      Possums eat green stuff mostly. It's the rats who will eat them but only on the ground so they get gathered up promptly.

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  2. JayCee19 November 2024 at 09:08

    Are you tempted to eat many?

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    1. Tigger's Mum19 November 2024 at 16:23

      Not the hazelnuts. They are much better cooked. Loads of walnuts.

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  3. Yamini MacLean19 November 2024 at 09:35

    Hari OM
    ...and you can watch the birds and the bees as you work! As long as no RSI is the result... YAM xx

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    1. Tigger's Mum19 November 2024 at 16:22

      Spannering bikes has been a lot harder on my hands. Xx F

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  4. angela19 November 2024 at 10:08

    Oh my. That is a big crop of chestnuts. I love them we cook them in the fire in aluminium foil. Yummy

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  5. Cathy19 November 2024 at 11:21

    We have several sets of nutcrackers which are handy when the (unshelled) Christmas nuts are put on the table. Hazelnuts always seem to come out whole….none of the palaver of bits and pieces hiding in the shells like Walnuts or Brazil nuts. What are you going to do with them - besides eat them?

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    1. Tigger's Mum19 November 2024 at 16:21

      We dry roast the hazelnuts, rub the skins off and eat them by handfuls, or chop them for salad with brocoli and lemon juice. Walnuts in baking, to make pesto, taratour sauce, in salads....

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  6. MadSnapper19 November 2024 at 12:52

    you have described how I feel when I draw/paint/blog/create/take photos. soothing. I love walnuts but have not tasted a hazel nut. we have no nuts growing in FL.. we have lots of nuts, but they are called tourists. ha ha . love the pups guarding the nuts

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    1. Tigger's Mum19 November 2024 at 16:17

      Not even pecans? In US hazelnuts are called cobnuts or Gilbert's. If you have ever tried Nutella or kinder confectionary you have eaten them. Best eaten dry roasted and skins rubbed off.

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  7. local alien19 November 2024 at 15:39

    What do you do with the shells? We burn our almond and walnut shells on our winter fire. They go up with a whoosh

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