It's Nut All It's Cracked Up To Be

On a gray, cold winter's afternoon, here's what I'm up to: cracking a bunch of the hazelnuts I picked up a month or so ago and storing them in the refrigerator until I'm ready to toast and chop them for baking.

Of course, my hands are aching (especially the one fingertip that kept getting caught in the handles of the nutcracker), and I'm just plain tired of cracking.

Don't mind me, though. I'll appreciate these all when I'm ready to ramp up the baking again in January. I'll get over it.

But I'm nut doing any more tonight!