The air has cooled a little, and we are heading towards autumnal salad days…  where days are still warm and clear, and it is just too much of a wrench to look beyond salad greens to full-on winter veg.  

And it is on these very days that walnuts come to the fore, adding substance and punch to changing season salads.  They are model siblings with other autumnal favourites: pears, apples, beetroot.  And, we found out, they are the second most popular nut in the world, after almonds.  So it is time to crack open a look into these magnificent looking nuts.