If you’ve ever gazed up at the pine tree in your yard and wondered if you could harvest some fresh pine nuts from those cones, the answer is yes -- and good luck. Pine nuts, also known by their ...

I thought I knew everything about pine nuts; that is, I knew they came from pine cones and were expensive. When I read that people forage for them in the fall in New Mexico, I suggested to my friend ...

Back in the 1960s, Barbara Aschenbrenner’s great-aunt Ruth made lovely pine nut cookies for the family. She passed along more than just platefuls of cookies: She shared the recipe. Aschenbrenner still ...

1. Heat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour a cookie sheet. 2. Using an electric mixer, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolk, vanilla and flour. Mix in pine nuts using a spoon or ...

As much as I love a good nut, I don’t like nuts in baked goods, from banana bread to brownies. I’ve had this aversion since I was a child. Nuts in a savory dish, such as pad Thai or spicy peanut ...

Chewy white chocolate pine nut cookies. The pine nuts add a wonderful toothsome creaminess that plays so well with the white chocolate chips and orange zest. Much as I love a good nut, I almost ...

“We need amaretto with these,” my cookie tester opined. I agreed. So much so that I’d have had it as a shot in my honey-vanilla chamomile as I wrote this. I’m not, though. Because there’s no amaretto ...

AP Food EditorMuch as I love a good nut, I almost universally hate nuts in baked goods. Not in brownies. Not in chocolate chip cookies. Certainly not in banana bread or carrot cake. I’ve had this ...