Guest Post -- Candied Pecans

As thanks for doing the big vanilla order ScottO sent me some candied pecans that he made, and they are pretty darn tasty, so I asked him to write a blurb on them:

With spring undeniably at the door, the last nut batch(es) of this season rolled out. As expected, my response to a tricky economy is calorie rich, dense foods. Nuts are part of the rites of winter, at least in my house. I started on the stove top, caramelizing sugar then adding in nuts and dried fruit. Moved on to oven only; likely just laziness. The last batch were pecans soaked in maple syrup with cinnamon, cayenne, cardamom and coco. I was distracted with spring frolicking ways, and forgot to give this batch the final dusting of cayenne and coco. Still, they were mailworthy.