Freddy Guys Hazelnuts

I got a hazelnut cookie recipe and wonder if I could find local northwest hazelnut, so I did a google search and found Freddy Guys. I put my order online on Sunday night and received the well packed raw hazelnut on Thursday in mail. I toasted some tonight and it tasted so delicious that everybody in the family can’t stop having it and all gone before I can make the cookie!

Needed a Willamette Valley gift in a hurry. Placed an order for hazelnuts with Freddy Guys. Glad I did. They arrived sooner than expected, so the service is top notch. The varieties ordered (salted and dry roasted) proved to be big hits with out-​of-​state friends. When quality and service are excellent, recommendations and repeat business follow!

When it comes to food, the first thing a serious cook learns is that there are generic ingredients and then there are people who make the same thing in a special way.
Hazelnuts, or filberts, are grown commercially as a generic item in the Sacramento River Valley, and go into a supermarket or buy a candy bar and this is what you find. Yeah, it is a hazelnut, but so what.
Fritz and Barb Foulke, the proprietors of Freddy Guys, do it a little differently. More heirloom genetically, and better cared for. Sort of the gourmet’s hazelnut. Cost a bit more, but you get more flavor for the price.
If you do not want to make the run out to Monmouth, they also sell their nuts at the Portland Farmer’s Market. Look for them.
Heaven is imagining a Gianduia Chocolate made with Freddy Guys hazelnuts.