On 14 May 2005 12:26:09 -0700, "KatieB" > wrote:

>I would like to find a recipe for toasted/glazed/spiced walnuts
>suitable for use in a composed beet and goat cheese salad, or a pear,
>arugula and blue cheese salad. I tried posting this once before and the
>not-so-helpful response was to search the site. Well, I had...and I
>had tried several recipes I found in the group but none had delivered
>what I was (and am still)looking for. Not too sweet, but with a very
>thin caramellized [sp] sugar or honey coating, salt, pepper and the
>option of some spices like cumin, nutmeg, mace etc. No luck with the
>recipes that have you coat in beaten egg whites first. The sugar tends
>to crystallize. But that could be my technique.

I remember your request. The recipes that were posted here included
one close to what I use, producing a "thin, carmelized" sugar
coating. I am mystified why none of them work for you. Perhaps your
oven is not hot enough or you don't cook them long enough. Try
granulated sugar. Try adding a bit of oil if you don't like them
crunchy.

If the replies were "not-so-helpful," maybe no one *could* help you.
Remember this is just a place where people hang out to discuss food,
cooking (and other things). Any answers to you are a favor, not an
obligation. No one guarantees that there will be someone here who can
provide what you are looking for.

Try submitting your request to rec.food.recipes. If that source and a
web search don't turn up anything that meets your personal criteria,
then just keep tweaking one of the other recipes or lose the dream.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!