Nuts!

Realise I haven't posted for ages - life has been hectic and an unexpected foreign trip with work hasn't helped. It also involved my first ever long haul flight, so am in a quandry with offsetting the CO2 impact of that....

As for the nuts...we've got loads of hazel trees as hedging in the garden and I've just realised that they're full of fruit (or should I say nuts?!). Keen to use anything that nature bestows upon us I'm now on the lookout for recipes using hazel nuts, and more importantly how are they best stored? Ideas more than welcome. If not maybe I'll have to setup a stall by the road selling nuts to passers by as some of the other locals are doing with their surplus fruit (didn't do this with our plums as they've suffered from the wet summer and are rotting on the trees).

The apple tree is also laden with fruit - will have to work out if it's an eater or cooker...