This is a double batch, 3 cups to serve, 3 cups to gift-away. Buy nuts from bulk bins in market ? they are better priced than nuts on baking aisle.

Ingredients

• 2 cups walnut halves
• 1 cup peeled hazelnuts
• 1 cup whole unsalted cashews
• 1 cup whole pecan halves
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon ground anise
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon coarse black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg, eyeball it
• 1 cup smoked almonds (recommended: Diamond Smokehouse almonds)

Directions