CANDIED PECANS OR WALNUTS

Great on the Buca Salad, or alone as a snack!

Ingredients:

1 C. sugar

1/2 C. cold water

3/4 tsp. Kosher salt

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 lb. shelled pecan or walnut halves

Directions:

Combine 1^st 5 ingredients in a skillet on medium high heat; simmer until mixture spins small thread from spoon (will bubble, separate & expose skillet bottom when scrape a wooden spoon across it). Remove from heat and stir in pecans. Continue stirring until syrup coats pecans. Pour on waxed paper and gently separate nuts while cooling. (If they don’t seem to harden, put back in skillet and heat a little more).