Ina’s Garden: Rosemary Roasted Nuts

Before we get to this week’s edition of Ina’s Garden, I want to let everyone know that I’m slightly behind on my blogging and commenting. My immediate attention this past week has been focused on redecorating since my sister (Codename: Surfer Psychologist) moved to Hawaii! But, not to worry. I’ve completed several large decorating projects and will move onto the less time consuming ones by the weekend. This means I’ll have more time to blog and catch up!

Anyway, onto Ina’s Garden! This week, Mia of Bright Morning Star chose to highlight Ina’s rosemary roasted cashews. For my version, I used a variety of mixed nuts in my pantry, including cashews.

These seasoned nuts were a snap to assemble and reminiscent of a ffwD recipe, sweet & spicy cocktail nuts. Ina’s recipe is a bit different because she incorporates brown sugar and cayenne pepper together for the seasoning. Also, the seasoning was mixed into the warmed nuts as opposed to baking in the seasoning like with Dorie Greenspan’s version.

I’m definitely going to make these again. The kicker for me was the brown sugar and cayenne pepper combination. I always love that bit of sweetness, and I’m finding that cayenne pepper is slowly becoming my preferred spicy seasoning! Try the recipe out for yourself. I think you’ll enjoy it! If you couldn’t join us this week in Ina’s Garden, we hope you can join us on August 18th when our theme will be “Go to the Grill!”