By Michelle Parks

Roasted pecans probably one of the best holiday treats ever – that salty pecan taste bursting with flavor. I remember when I was growing up, sitting around on holiday occasions talking and visiting with family and friends there was always roasted pecans. When I smell them roasting in the oven and when I take a bite it always makes me think of fond holiday memories. Arent the holidays the best time of year? They certainly are my favorite time to spend with family and friends. Plus, theres always an abundance of great food during the holiday season. What more could you ask for, really?

I love the taste of pecan being from the south its a given. You can just do so much with them make them into pies, cakes, cookies, candy.You can add them to so many of your foods and desserts, but sometimes a really good lightly salted roasted pecan is so simple and so good. I love to take them and heat them up just a bit and eat them warm makes the flavor seem that much more intense.

My grandmother always made roasted Pecans, and we enjoyed them so much! She took big plump pecan halves and lightly roasted and salted them. But on special occasions and in the cooler months, shed spice them up with cinnamon or nutmeg. They were so delicious. I would eat them by the handfuls. I would wake up to the smell of roasted pecans with cinnamon and sugar.

And they were so easy to make:

1 egg white

1 tablespoon water

2 1/4 cups pecan halves

1/2 cup white sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon.

Preheat oven to 225 degrees F (105 degrees C). Lightly grease a rimmed baking pan. Combine the egg white and water in a mixing bowl; beat until fluffy. Fold in the pecans to coat evenly. Combine the sugar, salt, and ground cinnamon in a shaker or cup with a lid. Dust the pecans evenly with the sugar mixture. Spread the nuts over the prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven until toasted and fragrant, stirring every 15 minutes, about 1 hour. Cool on pan, and store in an airtight container.

We never had to worry much about the airtight container at our house because the roasted pecans never stayed around long enough to be stored. One thing that I love about roasted pecans also is that they blend so well with other nuts. I take the roasted pecans and mix them with roasted cashews and eat them straight out of the tin. Or even add a bit of praline bit pecans to them for a salty and sweet combination.

Tanners Pecans has several different roasted pecan and nut gift tins. Roasted pecans easily became a holiday family tradition in my household growing up and its so easy to see why. Very easy and versatile, they are delicious by themselves as a snack or with other roasted nuts or as an ingredient in recipes.

About the Author: Tanners Pecan is owned and operated by Danny Fox and Michelle Parks and offers a variety of

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Submitted by: Bill William

The home kitchen is a part of the home that enjoys an unusually high amount of attention within the field of home design and furnishing: it is the area of the home where food and liveliness abound, and therefore the kitchen understandably brings out the best in people and their home. Over recent years, kitchen design has gone through some radical, exciting changes, and today’s models of kitchen furniture and decorations are incredibly pleasing. There has been a marked trend towards adding a home bar to the kitchen or next to it, independent of the dining table, with bar stools included. The mood that this sort of arrangement can accomplish for your home is very enjoyable, classy, and is sure to be a winning combination in any home.

Bar stools themselves are a wonderful item of furniture. They utilize space economically, they are ideal for both sitting and standing situations, and when done right they are incredibly comfortable. The bar stool has traditionally been used for accommodating large amounts of people in restricted spaces, yet there has been a tendency toward including the bar stool into the home furniture line up, and the results have been wonderful all around. There are now more styles of bar stool available than ever before, and no matter what kind of kitchen or home bar area you have, there will be a kind of bar stool that will optimally suit your home aesthetics.

Modern styles have generally tended towards high-perched bar stools, well over the 30 mark, with relatively high lower footrest bars. These kinds of stools are preferable for a home kitchen with a bar that is also relatively high standing, with the effect being that the room itself takes on a slightly more drastic air. Of course, whether or not you will want to have high stools and a high bar will depend on what kind of house you have. With a kitchen and dining area with very high ceilings, then it will be a good idea aesthetically speaking to have a high bar with high stools; a low-ceiling kitchen area will of course be better suited towards a mid-level bar and stools, at around the 25-30 range.

Materials will ultimately define what kind of bar stools you want to get for your home (or, if you happen to be a business owner, your bar or restaurant perhaps), and today, thankfully, it is pretty easy to find bar stools made of high-quality, sturdy materials for relatively reasonable prices. Classic looking bar stools usually are made of deep, richly toned wood though it is increasingly common to see metal (or partly metal) stools, which increase sturdiness. As far as cushioning is concerned, it is pretty common to see polyurethane foam being used for the seat itself, though older bar stools will probably use some other material for the cushioning.

No matter what kind of bar stool you do end up buying, be sure to take a look at as many different options as possible beforehand, as you will be surprised at just how many different kinds of bar stools there actually are out there.

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