Showing posts with label April 14 Pecan Day. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 13 April 2016

April 14 Pecan Day

April 14 Pecan Day


Pecan Day is a food holiday celebrated each year on April 14. Pecans are a good source of protein and unsaturated fats. Like walnuts. There are many ways people can show their love for pecans – like grabbing a handful to munch on, adding them to salads, making a delightful pecan pie, eating pecan crusted fish for dinner or having pecan ice cream.



Pecan Day Pecan day is a remembrance of the plating on a pecan tree by George Washington at the Mount Vernon estate March 25th 1775. The pecan tree sapling was gifted to him by Thomas Jefferson, who had planted a few pecan trees from the southern US at Monticello, VA. The pecan, native to southern North America, is sometimes called “America’s own nut.”

Enjoy the following tried and true recipes.
April 14 Pecan Day