Happy American Thanksgiving!
I’m so lucky, I got to have two Thanksgivings this year: one with my family in October, and one with my friend-family yesterday night!
There was: turkey, tofu, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, green bean casserole, stuffing, cranberries, jello, pumpkin pie (with chocolate swirls and without), brownies, blondies, chocolate pie..
We sat around in food comas for a long time after.
It was awesome!
I didn’t take any photos, since I was too busy stuffing my face and proclaiming my exasperation about not having seen HP7 yet (jeez!). But I do have a few photos of the pecan pie that I made a couple days ago with my besties.. :)
We used Pioneer Woman’s Pie That’ll Make You Cry recipe, and it was..delicious.
It’s basically all sugar. And pecans. And amazing.
You want some?
Okay do this:
Make 1 pie crust. Pioneer Woman suggests a specific recipe, but since we were without internet, we used a basic pastry recipe in one of our basic cookbooks. Use whichever you want. Feel free to dip the extra pieces of pastry into the extra filling and then eat it. Yay salmonella!
It should look something like this..
..But potentially more pretty.
Then mix up the following, it should take approximately two minutes.
1 cup white sugar, 3 tbsp brown sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 cup corn syrup, 3/4 tsp vanilla, 1/2 cup melted butter, 3 eggs.
Pioneer Woman explains in her post the reason for chopping the pecans and putting them in the crust first: so that they rise up, triumphant, and distribute themselves beautifully throughout the filling. I would like to say amen to this. It was perfect!
So you follow her recipe, you hear? Put the 1 cup pecans in the bottom of the pie crust. Then pour the filling overtop. You can (like me) try to recreate Pioneer Woman’s awesome action shot of this process and (like me) fail miserably. Wanna see?
Fail. Gotta get my head out of the way. Sorry guys, I tried!
Then the pecans will rise. It’s beautiful. You should watch it happen, it’s like a magic trick.
Then bake that sucker.
Pioneer Woman says bake it at 350 for 30 minutes covered with tinfoil, then to remove the tinfoil and bake for 20 minutes longer. We tried this method, but since it was still jiggly (and PW says NO JIGGLING) we put it back in, covered with tinfoil and checked periodically until it was finito. Yes!
Look how beautiful it is..
YUM.
Happy Thanksgiving indeed.
I am thankful for: pie, food, friends, family, love.
How about you?
xoxo,
