Just Passing the Time!

[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