Last week my good friend Bennie, a physician in Belgium, shared on Facebook a photo of a pecan pie she had made.  It looked magnificent!  I asked her for the recipe for it and she sent it along.  Turned out that it’s from a French-language cookbook of American recipes.  Well whatever: I’m still counting it as a recipe from a foreign language book 😛

It looked so decadent that I had to make it, even though I’ve never baked anything more than brownies before.  And after some cross-oceanic consultation about things like proper temperature (at one time I thought it was going to bake at 800 Fahrenheit… which didn’t sound right…) and some finagling with extra ingredients like corn syrup, I think it’s safe to say that in light of what friends were raving yesterday at Thanksgiving dinner, we have concocted a masterpiece!

So here is the recipe for ...