Home spiced and roasted nuts

Spice and roast nuts was another one of the items on my list of 101 things. There is a roasted/flavoured nut stall regularly at our local market and we love it but it's quite expensive and the nuts aren't that fresh. When we visited the German Christmas market and tasted the freshly roasted nuts we were amazed at what a difference it made so that encouraged me to try making some at home and cross another item off the list.

We both chose a recipe to try that appealed to us. Cameron chose Cinnamon Roasted Almonds - recipe here. They were amazingly easy to make and taste better than the sweet almonds Cameron usually picks at the market.

I can see these being quite versatile too - they could be crushed and used as toppings for yoghurt, fruit crumbles etc.

I wanted to try something savoury so I went for Cajun Roasted Nuts - recipe here. These were also fairly easy to make but didn't taste quite as I'd imagined because of the strong heather honey I used but they were still pretty tasty!

I read that you can make these in advance and freeze them until you're ready to serve them, which is very handy.