For Extra Flavor, Add Nuts
It takes only a little imagination to make “company fare” of plain food. Special recipes are not always needed. Many of your favorite foods are more delicious when you add nuts. Start with these suggestions:
• Serve sour cream with nuts on meat or baked potatoes.
• For waffles, biscuits, or muffins, stir nuts into blended dry ingredients before adding liquid.
• Mix honey or crisp bits of bacon with peanut butter for a sandwich filling; or use peanut butter and cheese slices for a grilled sandwich filling.
• Add nuts to meat, poultry, or seafood salads.
• Try slivered or sliced nuts in tossed vegetable salads.
• Mix coconut with food coloring for garnish.
• Roll ice cream balls in tinted or toasted coconut or chopped nuts. Freeze balls separately until set.
• Use toasted coconut or toasted, chopped nuts as a quick topping for cream pie or ice cream pie.
• Sprinkle cupcakes with nuts before baking and skip the frosting.
• For a spread on crackers or celery, add finely chopped roasted peanuts to cream cheese that has been blended with a little milk.
• Perk up your next vegetable souffle. Add finely chopped nuts along with the vegetable.