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March 26, 2009 14 Comments

Food on Fridays: I {heart} Walnuts

fofHere at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome.Sure, we love a good recipe and will drool over somebody’s fabulous food photography, but this is for anyone who eats, or diets, or sings songs about food, or opens a jar of peanut butter from time to time, as well.You can tell us about your recent contribution to Bread for the World, announce your highest score on Free Rice, or take a picture of a walnut shell. Seriously, this is a very open-minded food carnival.  Oh, and don’t forget to paste the broccoli button at the top of your post—it’s one of the world’s healthiest foods, packed with good stuff!Here’s a Mr. Linky tutorial:

Write up a post, publish, then return here and click on Mr. Linky below. A screen will pop up where you can type in your blog name and paste in the url to your own Food on Fridays post (give us the exact link to your Food on Fridays page, not just the link to your blog).You can also visit other people’s posts by clicking on Mr. Linky and then clicking participants’ names–you should be taken straight to their posts.

 Food on Fridays Participants

  • Stretch Mark Mama (Crockpot Lentil Soup)
  • Ship Full O’ Pirates (Lettuce)
  • Christ, Coffee and Knitting Needles (Super Simple Flavored Vinegar)
  • Newlyweds (Hearty Cabbage Soup)
  • Beauty in the Mundane (Clara’s Egg Drop Soup)
  • This Pilgrimage (Chiles Rellenos)
  • Olive Tree (April Meal Plan)
  • No Pattern Required (Mid-Century Menu: Cowboy Casserole)
  • It’s All About Love (Dinner in 10)
  • Shalee’s Diner (Shrimp with Lemon Angel Hair & Garlic)

Food on Fridays with AnnI’ll demonstrate my open-mindedness regarding the Food on Fridays carnival by only barely mentioning food. In fact, I’ll kick it off by posting this photo of my son holding a black walnut shell:Heart-shaped.Isn’t that appropriate, given that walnuts are so good for heart health?This is particularly important to our family, as the Belgian Wonder is supposed to watch his cholesterol and eat a heart-healthy diet. Did you know he had heart surgery 11 years ago?We {heart} all those omega-3, cholesterol-reducing foods that keep his St. Jude valve ticking because … we {heart} him.

More Friday Carnivals

  • Hooked on Houses hosts Hooked on Fridays
  • Anne Glamore at My Tiny Kingdom is hosting Flashback Fridays
  • The Inspired Room is hosting A Beautiful Life
  • Amber at the run-a-muck is hosting Friday Funnies
  • Frugal Fridays at Biblical Womanhood
  • The Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap

Filed Under: Food, Food on Fridays Tagged With: walnuts

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  1. Ms.Tee says

    March 27, 2009 at 7:50 am

    I’ve never noticed that shape inside of walnuts before – now I’ll have to look. 🙂 We are always finding heart-shaped rocks around here ~

    Have a great weekend

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  2. shepherdsgrace says

    March 27, 2009 at 10:28 am

    That is so cool! I LOVE that! My first linky, #5, has the wrong link..sorry about that, it is last weeks…oh vain regrets of life…smile…

    thanks, ann,

    Sarah

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  3. Lynn Hopper says

    March 27, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Despite the fact you have been around black walnuts all your life, I don’t think we hulled enough to give you a real “taste” for what they entail. I guess I didn’t want you to go to school with walnut stains…and you would have! Black walnuts are a LOT of work for a little return. Which is why I “heart” English walnuts, which crack open easily, give up their meat easily, and taste…well, if not quite the wild woodsy taste of the black walnut, still pretty great! I feel sure they are every bit as heart healthy as well, and are probably what the nutritionists, or whoever, mean when they say “walnuts”.

    And while there is a heart-shape there, I always thought they look like little owl faces!

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  4. annkroeker says

    March 27, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Ms. Tee: Ohhh…I’d love to have a heart-shaped rock or two. How charming!

    shepherdsgrace: I’ll update it to the correct one when I paste them in.

    Lynn (Mom): I think the English walnuts, or whatever you can readily buy at the store, are what doctors are recommending for lowering cholesterol and all that. The one that the Boy picked up just happened to be whatever grows around these parts, which I think are the black walnuts. I was being factual about what he was holding. We don’t eat them, except one time when you and Dad prepared some for us to taste-test. They tasted a little like licorice to me. So to be precies, it is actually the English walnuts that we {heart}, just as you point out.

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  5. Jane Anne says

    March 27, 2009 at 11:40 am

    My husband rarely takes pictures unless I ask him to. This week, he grabbed the camera twice – to take pictures of FOOD!!! He has a blog, which he writes on randomly. Months ago (maybe 6-8 months or so) he did a few Friday Food posts. So, he took pictures of a couple of dishes we made for possible upcoming Friday Food posts! Boy, that made me LOL. If he does end up posting, maybe I will get him to link to you.

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  6. annkroeker says

    March 27, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Jane Anne: Food photography? Bring it on!

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  7. Leila says

    March 27, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Hi Ann!

    I am allergic to walnuts — not the anaphalactic shock kind of allergic, but they give me canker sores. Other nuts do more or less, but walnuts just do.

    However, I hope you enjoy them!

    I have no food posts for you this week 🙁

    But I will enjoy the others’!

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  8. retroruth says

    March 27, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    There are tons of black walnut trees around here in Michigan, people throw away bags of them every year because they are too much of a pain to crack! This year I think I am going to pick some young ones and pickle them…

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  9. Aja Abney says

    March 27, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    I love walnuts! Especially in brownies. But I think that negates the healthiness of the walnut…or does it redeem the brownie? Hmmm…

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  10. Shalee says

    March 28, 2009 at 5:40 am

    Nuts are one type of food that I wish I liked better. Cholesterol runs high in my family as well and I know that walnuts would be a natural combative solution.

    Well, if God can make me love more veggies after praying about it, then I’m sure he can handle the nut department too. 🙂

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  11. Jennifer says

    March 28, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    Oh, ugh! I keep wanting to participate in this and missing it! Guess maybe next week I need to figure out how to do an auto-post and write it earlier in the week. 🙂

    I love almost all kinds of nuts, but I’m not terribly fond of walnuts. I wish I was…they are usually so much less expensive than my favorites…pecans and cashews.

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  12. Laura Ingalls Gunn says

    March 28, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    I grew up next to a walnut orchard. I miss it so.

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  13. Kristin says

    March 29, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I have Yogurt, Kashi cereal and about 1/4c of Walnuts each morning. I didn’t used to put the walnuts in because I didn’t have any around the house, but one day I did. Oooh goodness, they were so good in that morning concoction. I have also noticed that I am not as hungry before lunch as I was before I started adding the walnuts.

    My yogurt is whole milk cream on top organic yogurt, the Kashi is 18 g of protein and 10 g of fiber (well, I only have half a serving, so half that) and the walnuts have fats in it but this has been the best breakfast I’ve ever eaten. It is so healthy and the good fats in the morning keep me energized!

    I think maybe I should talk about this on my blog LOL I got a little carried away.

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