• 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.