Two things I learned over the weekend. 1) Candied pecans make everything taste better, and 2), candied pecans do not take pretty pictures. No amount of saturation editing can make them look like anything else besides dried up beetles and I totally apologize for that.
Also, I totally apologize for making your mind compare beetles to candied pecans, because I
know you're thinking about it now. And if you weren't - then now you are.
Shoot.
Anyway - this is one of my absolute favorite things to throw on top of salads. It makes them so much more interesting, and totally makes them taste gourmet. I especially love them on salads that have a balsamic based dressing. The pecan flavor coated in the sweet sugar, mixed with the salty/bitterness of balsamic just makes me do a happy dance.
I hope you do a happy dance tonight.