#Hazelnuts are one of our favourite nuts here in the kitchen and at the table. There is nothing that quite matches their nutty, slightly dry flavour and crunch. We use them a lot.
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#Hazelnuts & #blackberries at Gorge Waterway Park.
Baby #hazelnuts growing. There's a few different hazelnut cultivars that are grown at #WellandCommunityOrchard.
Hazel blossoms and catkins. This is one that is the farthest behind. The other trees/bushes catkins are elongated and yellow now but not dropping any pollen.
Should see some pollen from the hazel trees in a week or so if it stays warm. The catkins are expanding fast. Last year there was pollen and bees gathering it for one day and then the wind blew about 50mph and no more pollen.
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Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests 7k+ yrs ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hazelnut-research-1.7392860
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113507028148383483
* hazelnuts had been transplanted/cultivated for at least 7,000 years by Gitxsan, Tsimshian, & Nisga'a peoples
* research emphasizes Indigenous peoples' contributions to creation/maintenance of region's ecosystems
Hazelnut flowers, just a closeup.
The female flower is the little red speck on the bud to the right of the male catkins where the pollen comes from.
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Fig and armagnac ice cream topped with hazelnut pralines. Packed into 2.3-oz containers to deter me from consuming the whole batch in a single sitting. #IceCream #dessert #figs #hazelnuts #food
26/08/2023 - A slow Saturday. A couple of strolls, morning and afternoon and then feet up to watch the telly in the evening.
Hazelnuts showing on the trees now.
Hazelnut chocolate on my popcorn in the evening.
I like hazelnuts 
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Part two: the #clover lawn.
This little corner of the yard was just grass like everything else. Last summer, I built a bunch of garden bed frames and laid them all out all over the yard, then called my landscapers. This house of disabilities can only do a little heavy lifting! Raul and his guys came and ripped out loads of grass, filled the beds, and laid the pathways and border stones. I knew that I didn’t want to mow the little nook behind the dogwoods, so I had them scrape it too and I planted white clover in the fall and #hazelnuts early in spring.
I knew that clover was slow to grow, so in May, when there was still just a sparse handful of seedlings, I decided I might as well stick some extra #tomatoes out there. Tomatoes led to #melons and #beans, and that’s when the clover finally took off 
The clover is knee high and the pollinators adore it. I’ve had to pull some to give the tomatoes room to grow, and their roots are covered in nitrogen nodules. It’s too shady to be a good garden bed anyway, so I’m sticking with the hazelnut grove as a long term plan.
When I was buying these the cashier was like “I love Fario Rocker!”
Me: who?
This pastry was inspired by the bicycle race between Paris and Brest, specifically the bicycle wheels. Here's my version, based on the recipe by Claire Saffitz. Pate choux filled with hazelnut praline mousse, and I added a layer of chocolate ganache, because of course I did.
#food #cooking #ParisBrest #dessert #hazelnuts #PNW #PDX #pastry