When it comes to black walnuts, getting to the meat of the matter is easier said than done. Even veterans of autumn’s first-frost foraging campaigns occasionally surrender to the sheer toughness of ...

Black walnuts are among the hardest nuts to crack. They are right up there with hickory nuts and butternuts, but I only have experience with black walnuts. The nutcrackers that abound right now in the ...

We love nuts, we love them even more if they are easy to pick and eat. Most nuts often come with a hard shell covering. This is perhaps one of the reasons why they are so unpopular among kids and ...

Black walnuts are notoriously tough to crack. Challenged by Edward Sura of Perennial Virant to create a dish with the walnuts, Homestead chef Chris Davies read about “all these weird, redneck ways of ...

You're more likely to strike sweet walnut meat if you crack them yourself. Now is the time for local walnuts. Like many cooks, I have experienced the truly horrible experience of buying shelled ...