Barbecued Nuts. In a hot pan, mix together Worcestershire and catsup, then throw in the nuts until they’re coated. Spread them out on a baking dish and toast for about 15 minutes. Season with salt to flavor.

Drunken Nuts. Stir together whiskey, sugar and Worcestershire sauce. Add nuts and stir till coated. Let stand, then drain nuts. Transfer to a baking pan, bake for 15 minutes or till dry.

Spicy Nuts. In a hot pan over low heat, mix together Worcestershire, garlic powder, Tabasco and paprika. Stir for 3 minutes. Add nuts and stir till coated. Transfer nuts onto baking pan and bake for 10 minutes. Season to flavor.

Rootbeer Nuts. Over medium heat, melt butter in a pan. Add a half cup of rootbeer. Add nuts and simmer, till nuts almost dry. Transfer nuts to baking sheet and bake till crisp.

Pesto Nuts. Mix together nuts and ready-made pesto, till nuts are well-coated. Transfer nuts into baking sheet, bake for 15 minutes.

When baking, pre-heat your oven to 350-375 degrees. Also, stir nuts every ten minutes when baking. Cool the nuts before serving. You can serve them as soon as they are cooled or transfer them to air-tight containers.

Go nuts!

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More Than Just a Bowl of Nuts

According to Cyril Kendall, Ph.D., of the University of Toronto, “This is the largest study done to date looking at the effect of tree nuts and peanuts on Type 2 diabetes.”

According to Maureen Ternus, M.S., R.D., Executive Director of the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation, “While we’ve known for years that eating 1.5 ounces of nuts per day can help reduce the risk for heart disease, these new findings show that consuming nuts may now be helpful in controlling Type 2 diabetes as well.”

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Tree Nuts and Diabetes

Have you been tracking the details of the peanut-plant salmonella contamination and food recalls? How scary is that? That contamination has gone on this long and the one plant never having been inspected?

Personally, I’d like to see the justice system go Erin Brokovich on his ass – lock him in a room with nothing to eat or drink but water and his own peanut products.

Stewart Parnell aka Peanut Corp. of American head honcho would be face-to-face with his own demons. Would he choose to starve or would he choose to risk eating foods he knows to be contaminated? All the pleading the fifth in the world wouldn’t be able to save his guilty ass in that situation.

Apparently during the hearing, both Parnell and his sidekick were offered products from a jar or recalled items and both refused to eat anything from that jar. Sure that’s ok – but to put them in a position where they had no choice – sort of like the American people they infected, that would be justice at it’s best.

As a parent of kids who eat a lot of peanut butter and peanut products, I have to wonder what more consumers can be doing to protect their families. When food related products and factories move into your area, would it be feasible to call authorities and put them on someone’s radar? Who would we call?

I don’t believe it should come to 600 sick and nine deaths before something is done. I’m just not sure what?

Since this peanut salmonella outbreak has occurred, have you changed your eating habits any?  How has this recall and consumer threat impacted your family? Would you know a salmonella related sickness if you or a family member became ill? Label Recall has complete details on this potentially deadly bacterial infection.

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