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Cashews - roasted & salted or candied to eat; also over ice cream with caramel topping (Culvers Frozen Custard has a to-die-for caramel cashew sundae)
Almonds - just to eat, in chicken dishes, in and over ice cream, in Hershey bars, in M&Ms
Pecans - my favorite nut for baking - in cookies, brownies, coffee cake, etc.; also as the coating for cheeseballs. And pecan waffles, which I just might have to make for breakfast tomorrow. Even when a recipe calls for chopped walnuts, I always substitute pecans. Whenever my sister and her husband drive back from Florida, they stop in Tifton, GA, and bring me fresh pecan halves - the best.
Their daughter, my DN Laura, lives in the town where Beer Nuts are made. We always go to the factory store on our way out of town.