Nut recipe collection

Vegetarian pizza topped with chunky peanut butter, sauteed carrots, celery, and onion, seasoned with marjoram and finished with sunflower seeds. No cheese, no tomato sauce.

Baked fig and raisin pudding with crumbled waffle cookies, cocoa, walnuts, and warm spices, cooked in a water bath. A rich, old-fashioned holiday dessert served warm with hard sauce.

Plum and peach salad with toasted walnuts drizzled in a raspberry jam vinaigrette made with red wine vinegar and walnut oil. A 15-minute summer fruit salad.

Plum conserve with oranges and walnuts: a rich, old-fashioned preserve of plums and whole ground oranges simmered with raisins and sugar, studded with walnuts. A nutty, jammy spread for toast and cheese.

Plum streusel coffee cake layered with fresh plum halves, brown sugar cinnamon crumble, and chopped walnuts. Two layers of fruit and streusel sandwiched in a tender batter.

Italian pumpkin pie from the Po Valley with pasta frolla crust, fresh pumpkin filling, ground almonds, cornmeal, and candied orange peel. A rustic Northern Italian autumn dessert.

Polpettone di tacchino: Italian rolled turkey roast stuffed with ground turkey, bread crumbs, pistachios, and herbs, then braised with white wine, sage, and rosemary. Elegant Sunday Italian dinner with a pinwheel cross-section.

These cookies have many names: Butterballs, Russian Teacakes, etc. In New Mexico, they are "Polvorones" which is Spanish for "Dust Balls".

Pomona apple pie made with shredded tart apples, brown sugar, walnuts, and honey, topped with a buttery walnut crumble. A unique twist on classic apple pie with thicker, jammier filling.

Poppy seed ravioli cookies filled with a blended almond-poppy seed-honey filling, folded like tiny ravioli, and brushed with honey after baking. A unique holiday cookie project.

Eastern European poppyseed strudel with a buttery yeasted dough rolled around poppy seed filling, raisins, walnuts, and honey. The traditional makowiec for Christmas and Easter tables.

Curried pork and apple salad with toasted almonds, seedless grapes, and a soy-curry mayonnaise dressing. A quick, no-cook lunch for two using leftover pork or chicken.

Pork and apple salad for two with toasted almonds, grapes, and a curried soy-mayo dressing. A quick, elegant lunch salad that uses leftover cooked pork or chicken.

Quick pork and peanut stir-fry with ginger-marinated pork strips, onion, carrot, zucchini, and roasted peanuts in a lite soy and vinegar sauce. A weeknight dinner for two in 30 minutes.

Braised pork chops with dried figs, apple slices, orange juice, Gewurztraminer, and warm spices served over saffron cinnamon couscous with toasted almonds and pine nuts.

An easy to prepare succulent pork chop that surely won't disappoint once it's time for dinner!