Love Macadamias

When we were younger, Father would bring home macadamia nuts from his trips abroad. They were always special treats.

Often, they would come in those distinctive blue cans.

Sometimes, they would be covered with chocolate.
( Oh, yeah! )

I always thought that macadamia nuts only came from Hawaii. How great is it to find out that the macadamia nut is the only plant food native to Australia that is produced and exported in any significant quantity?

No wonder when someone was heading back for the Philippines, Father's only request for pasalubong (present) was macadamia nuts. We were told that he was partial to the dry roasted and salted ones. No problem.... or so I thought. Lo and behold, there were plain ones and there were honey roasted ones, but I couldn't find salted ones.

I found ONE bag of salted macadamia nuts among all the bags of nuts on the display in one of the grocery stores I visited. Naturally I got that so that I had something to send home. I wish I had found more but unfortunately there was none to be found. I could not find any in the many grocery stores I passed by.

I was really hoping to send more macadamia nuts for Father (and Mother and Z) to enjoy so I got them a pack each of plain ones and honey roasted. I hope they liked them. I love the honey roasted ones ... but that is me and my sweet tooth.

I got an extra bag of the plain ones to experiment whether I could honey roast the nuts myself.

Ahhh ... the well laid plans of mice and men ...

... the result of my experiment was not quite comparable to the real thing.

a. I didn't get a nice crunchy coating on the nuts

b. some of the nuts got toasted, instead of just roasted

c. they just didn't taste the same

However, on the positive side, macadamia nuts ARE macadamia nuts. Plus sprinkling them with a mixture of powdered sugar and ground cinnamon AFTER they've been roasted with honey certainly makes them value added nuts.

So in spite the fact that the ones I made paled in comparison to the honey roasted ones they sell in the market and in the stores, they were gobbled up in an instant.