Perhaps I just never noticed before, but bags of fresh New Zealand walnuts seem only to have arrived on the shelves of local grocers in the last couple of years. Maybe it’s a newish commercial venture here — and maybe I’m just not that observant.
Either way, I’m enjoying them now.
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I bought 2.5kg last spring (2018) on a local market in France. They were absolutely awful…. now I buy them again, as I did before, either by bags of one kilo or shelled and packed in bags. But there IS a special joy in breaking them open and taste the bitter, spittle pulling but oh so delicious skin over fresh walnuts!
Lovely pics too.
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They’re not cheap here — so I doubt I’ll ever be buying more than a small bag fresh. You are right — there is something very special about eating them straight out of the shell.
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Lovely photos. It does seem to be easier to buy them like this in shops these days. Walnuts come with their own very eco friendly packaging, don’t they?
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Eco-friendly, but difficult to open. Note to self: buy a nut cracker 🙂
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I am using my grandmother’s nut cracker. Best ever!
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I’m using the flat edge of a cleaver 😀
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😀 😀
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I’ve only recently started to like walnuts. They are a very grown up kind of nut somehow. I love the way you’ve softened the colours and made them so photogenic.
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I love the idea of them as a grown up nut — but I know exactly what you mean 😀
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Great photos of walnuts which we should all eat for all its nutritious ingredients. Greetings from distant and still chilly Canada!
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Thanks Peter. Sorry to hear it’s still chilly. It’s starting to get colder here now.
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Delicious Su.
Leslie
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These are everywhere in the autumn here! Squirrels are in heaven and stock up for winter then. I hope you’re putting some in a yogurt parfait:).
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Lucky squirrels. Mine are costing $9 a bag.
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Whoa!!
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These are such delightful soft focus photos Su. And you must have a very good nutcracker! Whenever we have walnuts in their shells they always end up in bits! Or maybe NZ walnuts are different to what we get.
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Thanks Jude.
I don’t have a nut cracker; I’ve just got adept with the flat edge of a meat cleaver. My strike rate (no pun intended) of getting usable nuts to dust is pretty good now. 😀
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That sounds rather dangerous!
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Fine as long as the blade is pointed away from me 😂
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And wearing goggles so no shrapnel enters your eyes!
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There is no shrapnel. The flat on the cleaver splits the shell rather than shatters it.
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Oh good! That accounts for the lovely clean break in your shells 🙂
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I don’t think I’ve ever had fresh walnuts?! These look so pretty Su – great shots!
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Thank you 😀 They are really delicious, but very fiddly to get out of the shells.
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You have to work for them 😁😁
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