Pecans! They're so good. We buy a big bag at Costco. All shelled and ready to go. I use them to make a pecan pie at Thanksgiving and SO makes pecan cookie balls.
This past Thanksgiving when I was preparing to bake a pecan pie, I collected the ingredients which included a new, full, unopened bag of pecans and another bag that was maybe ¼ full. I brought them both to the kitchen in case the partial bag was not enough to complete the pie.
I made the pie. The nuts in the partial bag we more than enough to make the pie so I didn't have to open the new, full, unopened bag of pecans.
Fast forward to this week. SO is getting ready to make her pecan cookie balls and asks me where the pecans were. I told her they were in the usual place. However, neither of us could find the bag of nuts. We have our pantry in the basement. Dedicated shelving that holds kitchen supplies and more. Perishable items like nuts go in the freezer so they won't become rancid.
They are nowhere to be found. I mean we searched everywhere they could logically be. Then I searched places they would never be. I looked on other shelves, behind shelves, behind the freezer, in cabinets... you get the idea. No pecans. This is driving me CRAZY! I'm a very organized person. (That sounds better than, "I have OCD") so I almost never lose anything.
I'm convinced they are here somewhere in the house. We are going to Costco later this week and will have to buy another bag of pecans. No doubt the original bag of pecans will reappear as soon as we bring the new bag home.
I guess I'll have to come up with some more pecan recipes.
Have any of you seen my pecans?
