Pickled walnuts used in recipes, commonly cooked in beef dishes. Pickled walnuts are made from the fruit of both common walnut tree varieties: "Juglans regia", the Persian, royal, English or common walnut, and "Juglans nigra", the black or American walnut. The first stage is to pick the walnuts whilst they are still green and before the shells have set. Most recipes say that late June is about the best time to pick them. The soft walnuts are then soaked in brine (salt water) for at least ten days. The walnuts are then drained and left to dry in the air. Soaking the
Buff-sided robin binominal name translates as stag-bellied dappled tree-nymph. The generic name "Poecilodryas" (= spotted or dappled wood-nymph) refers to the spots on the wing and tail of species in this genus and its characteristic flight and perching behaviour. The specific name "cerviniventris" refers to the buff colouration of the chest, derived from "cervus" = stag or deer and "ventris" = vent or belly. The buff-sided robin is a medium to large sized robin species, with body length ranging from . Adult buff-sided robins are not sexually dimorphic and the sexes cannot be differentiated on the basis of plumage. However males are