{"id":24689,"date":"2025-04-22T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24689"},"modified":"2025-04-03T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:40:07","slug":"add-nuts-to-your-meals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/22\/add-nuts-to-your-meals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Nuts to Your Meals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/overturned-bowl-filled-with-nuts_23-2148675575.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/overturned-bowl-filled-with-nuts_23-2148675575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD offers these ideas for adding nuts in your menus:<\/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, saute\u0301ed 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<p>Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2021issue1\/2021_issue1_cooking_tips.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2021issue1\/2021_issue1_cooking_tips.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA only by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD offers these ideas for adding nuts in your menus: 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 texture to [&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-24689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24689","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=24689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24691,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24689\/revisions\/24691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}