It's You and Me

This past month my husband has been bringing home stray walnuts which reminds me of my walnut picking days. Growing up in San Jose, CA we begrudgingly picked walnuts every Fall from the trees in our yard. The houses in our neighborhood were built in the late 50′s early 60′s and before that it was a walnut orchard. Therefore every lot had at least two walnut trees on it. Most people just let the walnuts drop and rot but we picked and hulled our walnuts. My Father would knock them off the tree with a long pole and then the kids would pick them up, put them in a bucket and after they were all picked up the skins were cut off. By the end of the weekend your hands would be stained black from the hulls (skins). Lastly, the nuts would be laid out to dry on large wood trays. Embarrassingly, the following day in school the black stained hands were ridiculed and not the badge of honor. The Walnut Trees died in the ’80′s and are no longer a part of the neighborhood.

I don’t cook often but today I decided to crack open a few of the walnuts my husband brought home and make Banana Nut Bread. While I was on a nostalgia binge I used one of my favorite recipes from the ‘70’s. My apologies for the picture quality I took it with my phone at night. Not the best but everyone is eating the bread up.

The recipe is using the hRecipe plugin