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  • noun Alternative spelling of piñon.

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Examples

  • The sprinkling of pine nuts was sparse but nevertheless so full of their distinctive flavor that it reminded me of traveling through the Taos, N.M., mountains with a couple of Taos Pueblo dudes, stopping for deer and gathering and eating pine nuts -- what they call pinon -- off the ground.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • The sprinkling of pine nuts was sparse but nevertheless so full of their distinctive flavor that it reminded me of traveling through the Taos, N.M., mountains with a couple of Taos Pueblo dudes, stopping for deer and gathering and eating pine nuts -- what they call pinon -- off the ground.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • There is an emerging haute border cuisine, which emphasizes regional ingredients such as pinon nuts and even tequila (unheard of in classical Mexican cooking) -- Texas cookbook author Lucinda Hutson has published a recipe for gazpacho with a whole cup of tequila, plus serrano chiles.

    Selena Country 2008

  • This tree is called by the Mexicans "pinon," and also by travellers the "nut-pine."

    The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • Known locally as "pinon," jatropha is a hearty shrub that grows with no special care.

    Reuters: Top News 2009

  • The smells of roasted green chile and pinon fires fill the night air.

    Cherie Burns: Inspiration for Change Cherie Burns 2011

  • Chipotle black bean burgers, seasonal veggie plates, chipotle tofu melt, pinon and pepita encrusted tofu over saffron rice...

    Carolyn Scott: Miami Twice: Miami Healthy Dining Hot Spots Part 2 Carolyn Scott 2012

  • And then there's our plucky heroine, being Chosen for training in her Magickal Powahs by Cherokees who apparently burn pinon wood in their speshul Mystical Ceremonial Fires. or something, IDEK. nantahala, i'm not suffering alone! tags: dances with pretendians, ndns, we-sha-sha mood: eyerollnig

    pretendians, the gift that keeps on giving us snark material. bolmusic 2009

  • The smells of roasted green chile and pinon fires fill the night air.

    Cherie Burns: Inspiration for Change Cherie Burns 2011

  • Focusing on pinon-juniper woodlands in Arizona and New Mexico, I mapped the shapes of patches of vegetation from aerial photographs and measured their degree of spatial pattern.

    hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Vegetation Self-Patterning Presentation 2008

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