{"id":24456,"date":"2025-03-06T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24456"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:40:05","slug":"adding-nuts-to-your-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/06\/adding-nuts-to-your-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Nuts to Your Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24457\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/mixed-nuts-photo-from-Freepik-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/mixed-nuts-photo-from-Freepik-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mixed nuts photo from Freepik<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here are some ideas from Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, for adding nuts to your menu:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Add to salad dressings<\/em>: Creations include a basil walnut vinaigrette or creamy salad dressing with almonds, mustard, and dill with added chopped pine nuts.<\/li>\n<li><em>Add to sandwiches<\/em>: Chopped walnuts, almonds, peanuts, and pecans add a toasty flavor and extra texture to grilled vegetable sandwiches, falafel, and hummus. Or add chopped nuts to smooth peanut, almond, or soy butters to make a crunchy sandwich.<\/li>\n<li><em>Use as garnish<\/em>: Increase protein, flavor, and texture by adding to bean and rice casseroles, baked potatoes, hot and cold cereal, baking batters, puddings, or vegan ice cream sundaes.<\/li>\n<li><em>Add to pasta<\/em>: Top tomato-sauced pasta with chopped almonds or pine nuts, creamy-sauced pastas with walnuts or pecans, or toss pasta with olive oil, saut\u00e9ed garlic, and chopped almonds.<\/li>\n<li><em>Add to sauces<\/em>: Stir peanut butter or soy butter into mushroom sauces for a Thai effect; add ground almonds or pine nuts to creamy sauces and pecans or pistachios to fruit sauces.<\/li>\n<li><em>Add to breakfast<\/em>: Baked apples, oatmeal, hot cereals, cold cereals, and muffins can all benefit from a variety of chopped nuts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some ideas from Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, for adding nuts to your menu: Add to salad dressings: Creations include a basil walnut vinaigrette or creamy salad dressing with almonds, mustard, and dill with added chopped pine nuts. Add to sandwiches: Chopped walnuts, almonds, peanuts, and pecans add a toasty flavor and extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24458,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456\/revisions\/24458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}