We have been very fortunate to spend some wonderful time in Tuscany, with Alvina and Umberto at their Villas at Podernuovo. I am missing the tranquility and the fertile abundance so am treating myself to a few retro blogs which you may not have seen.
They say 'A Walnut looks
like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower
cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex.
We now know walnuts help develop more than three dozen neuron-transmitters for
brain function.'
In the British Journal of Nutrition, a rodent study found a walnut rich diet reverses the effects of brain ageing.
G picked more than I did? What are the secrets of filling up the bucket?...... Yes, I know the basic stuff - like the walnuts fall off the tree - (helped sometimes by extension and shaking of the human hand etc) but next time I go to Tuscany, I want to win!!
I also am aware of natural physics, such as that walnuts will roll down hills - so look there first. (I have a theory that G was told this and gathered all the good ones before I joined him in the exercise.)
Then you had to think laterally - like if they didn't roll downhill, perhaps they went sideways and settled in any depression or were caught by other foliage etc.
I spent happy times on my own picking up walnuts, enjoying just being there, then of course to enjoy 'Pasta with Walnut Pesto'. Recipe will be on my next blog.
Clara
http://www.timeintuscany.com/ Visit the website for images of Podernouvo.
Click on 'comment' at bottom of page to have your say or email mosmanmeanders@gmail.com
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| It took a while to pick all of these and now the task is to crack them to release their bounty. We became adept at this. |
In the British Journal of Nutrition, a rodent study found a walnut rich diet reverses the effects of brain ageing.
G picked more than I did? What are the secrets of filling up the bucket?...... Yes, I know the basic stuff - like the walnuts fall off the tree - (helped sometimes by extension and shaking of the human hand etc) but next time I go to Tuscany, I want to win!!
I also am aware of natural physics, such as that walnuts will roll down hills - so look there first. (I have a theory that G was told this and gathered all the good ones before I joined him in the exercise.)
Then you had to think laterally - like if they didn't roll downhill, perhaps they went sideways and settled in any depression or were caught by other foliage etc.
I spent happy times on my own picking up walnuts, enjoying just being there, then of course to enjoy 'Pasta with Walnut Pesto'. Recipe will be on my next blog.
Clara
http://www.timeintuscany.com/ Visit the website for images of Podernouvo.
Click on 'comment' at bottom of page to have your say or email mosmanmeanders@gmail.com
