A muffin recipe, and a query about black walnuts.

[brooksmoses]

So, papersky recently posted this link to a lemon-walnut muffin recipe. Aside from the entertaining debate about what properly counts as an "ingredient" and whether this muffin recipe has any or not -- it has no flour, eggs, butter, or sugar -- it sounds quite tasty and I'd like to try it.

The recipe does bring up a question, though: Does anyone know of a local-to-the-Bay-Area source of black walnuts? I am really quite fond of them, and this recipe sounds like it would indeed (as it suggests) be improved by using black walnuts instead of the usual kind, but I don't know of any way to get some other than the trees on my mom's farm in Virginia. Suggestions?

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought we were going to debate 'what counts as a muffin'? And I was going to argue that, on analogy to martini glasses, maybe anything put in a muffin tin was a muffin?

I'm afraid I can't wrap my head around the argument that the recipe has no ingredients. Just, ow.

[cobalt-00.livejournal.com]

...but it *does* contain flour. It's the third from the bottom ingredient.
All that aside, it looks tasty and I'll probably try to make it. :)

[brooksmoses]

In the version papersky made, she'd substituted out the flour for something else to make it gluten-free.