They are expensive. The pine nuts and the almond paste (not to be confused with marzipan). My Dad bought me a pound of almond paste, pistachio paste and a bunch of pine nuts for the holidays. He knew I've been wanting to make them so he had them shipped to me

I made orange scones early last week and while it's an easy recipe I clearly wasn't ready to be baking as I got measurements all mixed up that I had to go fishing for the extra pieces of butter out of the flour. Luckily pignolis are pretty simple with very few ingredients and with a mixer it takes a few minutes. The time consuming part is the baking.

You probably won't ever hear this from me again but Tylenol has helped a lot. I can't take anything else and not that I would take a prescription either if I could.