{"id":2118,"date":"2008-12-12T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T20:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2008-12-12T18:10:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T22:10:13","slug":"ff-crack-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2008\/12\/ff-crack-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"FF: Crack your own"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Crack<\/a>

Crack your own <\/p><\/div>\n

I like nuts.\u00a0 There, I’ve said it and now that it’s out in the open, we can move along.\u00a0 I enjoy most nuts and love snacking on them.\u00a0 There are a few that I do not like, but honestly there aren’t too many of those.<\/p>\n

I try to keep nuts on hand for us to snack on and for cooking.\u00a0 They provide protein and have healthy fats so you don’t have to feel bad about eating them.\u00a0 They add great crunch and texture to dishes and I find they work amazingly well with a nice bowl of oats.<\/p>\n

Growing up we didn’t really have nuts around all that much other than your standard peanuts which were for my dad to munch on.\u00a0 My mom didn’t eat nuts and even though I love PB<\/abbr> with all my heart and soul, snacking on peanuts wasn’t something I enjoyed unless presented to me in the form of brittle.\u00a0 Which is a different story all together.<\/p>\n

However, every year during the holiday season Grandma R would have out a bowl of whole nuts that you would have to crack yourself.\u00a0 This fascinated me more than it probably should have.\u00a0 I loved seeing all the different nuts and the type of shells they came in.\u00a0 I liked trying to identify them and then see if I could get one out whole.\u00a0 Cracking nuts is a very serious business because you can’t just go crazy or you will crush the insides, leaving you with dust.\u00a0 Which isn’t really all that appetizing, trust me.<\/p>\n

\"Bringing<\/a>

Bringing it back <\/p><\/div>\n

Every year during the holidays, the grocery stores bring out the bulk bins of whole nuts and the nut mixes and I get nostalgic remembering the bowl Grandma R would have out.<\/p>\n

This year on a whim I decided to buy some mixed nuts to put out.\u00a0 Scott thought I was crazy as this is not a tradition he is familiar with because his family did not do whole nuts.\u00a0 We already had a nutcracker set because I actually bought it to use on crab legs!\u00a0 Scott also thought the little digging tools that came with the nutcracker were sort of pointless and silly.\u00a0 This from someone who’s never used them.<\/p>\n

I had the perfect little milkglass bowl to put the mix in.\u00a0 One that had been picked up in a secondhand shop at some point.\u00a0 I poured the nuts into the bowl and placed the nutcracker alongside them.\u00a0 And then I dug in.\u00a0 Then Scott decided to give it a try and guess who now is in love with the technique?\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 “Those little tools are handy!”\u00a0 It’s amazing how much comfort I find in having this out. It’s just a small bowl but it’s presence takes up the whole kitchen.\u00a0 I look at it and instantly remember holidays at Grandma R’s house which always makes me smile.<\/p>\n

And I’ve decided to bring the tradition back and from now on, it’s going to be crack your own during the holidays.\u00a0 Our current favorite is the Brazil nut which also proves to be the most difficult in cracking.\u00a0 We have yet to get a whole, intact nut but we’re working on it!<\/p>\n

Was\/is this a tradition in your family for the holidays?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like nuts.\u00a0 There, I’ve said it and now that it’s out in the open, we can move along.\u00a0 I enjoy most nuts and love snacking on them.\u00a0 There are a few that I do not like, but honestly there aren’t too many of those. I try to keep nuts on hand for us to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-ya","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}