5 Put the roasted kale, aubergine and garlic with the parsley and roasted pistachios in a blender and pulse until smoothish, but still with a little texture.
But other appetizers were terrific, especially beet salad with a bright lemon-poppy vinaigrette and an inspired sprinkling of roasted pistachios.
Former pastry chef Bryan Graham enrobes roasted pistachios in white chocolate seasoned with candied orange and za'atar, a blend of Middle Eastern spices.
At Eleven Madison Park, Nicole Kaplan, the pastry chef, decided to use a pistachio paste made with salted roasted pistachios to fill a pithivier.
Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, the nation's second-largest processor of the nut, ran raw and roasted pistachios through the same machinery on several production lines, said David Acheson, assistant commissioner for food protection at the Food and Drug Administration.
A joint inspection of Setton's plant by the F.D.A. and the California Department of Public Health found that Setton employees often used the same transport bins, conveyors and packing machines for both raw and roasted pistachios, potentially contaminating the roasted nuts.
WHAT WE LIKED Goat cheese fritters, steamed Manila clams, pear and beet salad, crab cakes; vitello al Gorgonzola, roasted pistachio-encrusted salmon, pork chop al Gorgonzola, beef short ribs, linguini alla vongole, ricotta gnocchi; tiramisù, carrot cheesecake, Drunken Cherries.
Ahem, we need chocolate.Pistachio ice cream with lightly roasted pistachio.
The meal, explained Barjamovic, was popular in Assyria sometime around the first millennium B.C. and was slightly younger than the oldest menu item: mersu, a sweet made from dates, honey, roasted walnuts, pistachios, terebinth nuts, cumin, and coriander.
Roast pistachios and chop.
Recommended dishes -- Goat cheese agnolotti, potato and fennel soup, seared tuna, hoisin chicken rolls, watercress salad, seared foie gras, snail fricassee, duck leg confit, roasted chicken, pistachio-crusted salmon, venison bourguignon, chocolate brioche pudding, homemade sorbets, Key lime tart, pineapple tart tatin, ice cream sundae.
