OMGtellmeaboutit.

Minifobette has a teacher, two aides, and a speech therapist at school, plus 6 more therapists at private therapy. Then back at school there's Minifob's teacher, plus the nurse, special ed coordinator, librarian, and counselor, each of whom spend personal one-on-one time with one or both of my kids. I didn't even bother with the rest of the staff who only interact with them the same amount they interact with all the other students.

(For the record, I made glatt's wife's awesome spiced nuts for all of them. They've become a yearly tradition at our house, and everyone I give them to always raves about them.)

I just read Glatt's awesome nuts.
















































I'm sure they are.

If you liked reading about them, you should try putting them in your mouth.

Where are Glatt's nuts? I wanna see! :D

I just read the recipe, or rather, looked at the instructional pictures (the best kind in my opinion :D ) and it sounds absolutely wonderful. I will try this. I know a number of people who love nuts. Gonna buy some nuts and clove tomorrow.

Glatt's nuts sound delicious!

By the way, I went back to read Clod's post. I initially misread that she gave Glatt's wife some spiced nuts. That's why I was wondering where was the post about the nuts. :p: :lol:

Clod: regarding the spiced walnuts, does it matter if you use canola oil or not? can it be vegetable oil?

Any type of oil is fine. Well, olive oil might taste weird. But I've used canola, grapeseed, and sunflower, at least.

Ugh! I couldn't find ground cloves at the store today. :( I was really hoping to make the spiced nuts tomorrow. I'm thinking of smashing the whole cloves that I have, hehe.

I made a second batch of pastisettes last night and they turned out MUCH better. So for anyone wanting to try -- this time I upped the oven to 310F and baked for 15-18 minutes per batch. Way better texture.

Yes, I quoted myself. :lol: Anyways, I'm just gonna omit ground cloves. I've ran out of time. I'm going to make the spiced walnuts then chocolate pound cake first thing tomorrow morning before my sister needs to cook. I made another version of fruit cake cookies today but forgot to take pictures. I have a few of them left of which I'll take pix tomorrow.

People liked them except for my mom who said they tasted good in a "meh" attitude. She hasn't eaten them again since the morning that I made them. By the way, I burnt some nuts. Those definitely tasted "meh." :lol:

The spiced nuts are perfect for that. This year we didn't make enough for me to give any away. They barely made it to Christmas before we ate them all.

Nuts are so expensive to buy though. Where do y'all get yours?