Just Passing the Time!

[katluvr]

Anyone else at work just passing the time. Waiting for a respectable hour to leave???? It is very quiet here, I could get a LOT of work done, but just not focused. Just maybe one hour more?

Happy Holidays!

[Veronica]

Thom commuted 3 hours to be at work for 4 hours. He tried to work from home today, but it's against policy.

Veronica

[katluvr]

WOW! Luckily my commute is 5 miles! I just didn't want to take vacation time, so thought I would show my face around the place.
Almost no email flying...true showing of how few people are working!

[indysteel]

I was in the office--alone--until 2. I just about lost my mind; it was so pointless being there. Then I went to the gym for a brief workout. Now I'm home, doing laundry and make 2 pounds of sugared pecans. Yummy!

[Tuckervill]

Share your pecan recipe? Here's mine. The next batch will have half cayenne and half cinnamon. Haven't tried that, yet.

Spicy Glazed Pecans

1/2 cup sugar
3 TBS water
1 scant tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
2 cups pecan halves

Pre-heat oven 350 degrees. Butter heavy large baking sheet (I cover with foil, too, for easy clean-up). Combine first four ingredients in heavy, small saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Boil 2 minutes. Add pecans and stir until pecans are coated with mixture, about one minute. Transfer pecans to prepared sheet, spreading evenly. Bake until pecans are just beginning to brown, about 13 minutes. Transfer to cookie sheet lined with wax paper and separate pecans with fork (quickly!). Cool completely. (Can be stored for up to one week in air-tight containdy er, but as they are SO delicious--shiny, crunchy, and spicy-sweet--we usually gobble 'em all up.)l

[indysteel]

Sounds good! Here's my recipe;
1 pound of pecan halves
2 egg whites
2 Tablespoons of water
1 cup of sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix the egg and water until frothy. Mix the pecans in the eggwash. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Mix pecans in the sugar mixture until well coated.

Lay the pecans out on a greased cookie sheet and place in a preheated, 250 degree oven. Bake for an hour, stirring the pecans every 15 minutes.

[Tuckervill]

Yum. The cinnamon/cayenne pepper ones turned out ymmy, too!

Karen

[lunacycles]

Man this forum is worth the recipes alone! Merry XMas, and gracias!

[Zen]

I made Russian Tea Cakes.

I didn't let the first batch cool enough before the powdered sugar. They're more like Gloppy Glazed Shortbread Balls.

But good

[chicago]

I am home on the Eve doing nothing.

oh wait, I'm washing clothes, "about" to run the dishwasher. I changed my own headlight, straightened out some bill papers (do those bill papers ever really get straight... I always have a few piles, arggghhh).

Now Im having some wine and limiting myself to one more glass so I feel good tomorrow to join the family in Christmas celebration.

If only I woke up to an Equine tomorrow in my living room, wow!, what a Christmas that would be

[Selkie]

Thom commuted 3 hours to be at work for 4 hours. He tried to work from home today, but it's against policy.

Veronica

Yep, that sounds like the Fed'l Govt.

I was the only person on our Staff in today, and my boss took pity on me, letting me work from a building closer to home (just 7 miles away - easy commute for a change).

We got released early, which is the tradition. The 5 hours I had to slog out at work moved like molasses, though.

[Aggie_Ama]

My husband had to open the plant nursery for 5 hours. They had 3 customers all day so he read email and chit chatted with his co-workers.

[Sgritn]

Home at last...yeah boy! I had to work the 24th, the 26th., have to work the 31st, off the New Years Day and day after...health care can be a bugger sometimes..days off are a gift from heaven.