Cashew Nuts

Mom harvested our cashews from the farm since the neighbors have benefited from it ever since we stopped visiting.

There's mom near that orange cellophane. hehe. And those are the cashew trees.

Here are some of the fruits.

Did you know that it takes 5 sacks of fruits to make 1 sack of nuts? That's why it's really costly. It's around 350php per kilo here. :) heheh. But it's worth the cost anyway.

And here's the outcome. The nuts. It takes serious labor to get to this final stage. You need to cut of the nut part from the fruit, cut it into half - and you need to be wearing a glove or pour some oil into your hands or you get burned from the fruits acid, peel the skin off (and it has to be manually), dry it, then you either toast, roast, or fry.

By the way, we're selling these for 25.00 per 50g pack. Maybe you guys are interested. hehe