Ginkgo has sweet sweet pie
Nov. 26th, 2004 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kickahaPecan pie, you perverts.
One of my favorite desserts is pecan pie, but it's hard to find a good one, even around here. Up around WA, the standard is the little 3" Bama brand pies. Yeah, I know they sound gross, and the crust is pretty poor, but the filling is actually really good. Down here, pecan pies are everywhere... mass produced. I guess it's kind of like apple products in WA - since it's such a ubiquitous product, not many people make it.
Well, ginkgo gave it a shot, and succeeded *beautifully*. She took the recipe from Mama Dip's, and holy crud is it amazing. Mama Dip's, for those of you not in the Triangle area, is *the* place for southern cooking. She was tapped to personally cater Pres. Clinton's visit to the area, for instance. You haven't *had* fried chicken until you've tried hers. :) And I finally understood what the big deal was with greens after going to her restaurant for the first time almost 10 years ago.
Anyway, the pie is this wonderful sugar/egg/butter concoction with pecans perfectly cooked throughout, and the top nuts slightly caramelized. Oh. My. God. I seriously have never had a pecan pie this good. It's edging towards praline in a crust.
And I have a whole pie here to myself. Muahahahahahahahaha.
One of my favorite desserts is pecan pie, but it's hard to find a good one, even around here. Up around WA, the standard is the little 3" Bama brand pies. Yeah, I know they sound gross, and the crust is pretty poor, but the filling is actually really good. Down here, pecan pies are everywhere... mass produced. I guess it's kind of like apple products in WA - since it's such a ubiquitous product, not many people make it.
Well, ginkgo gave it a shot, and succeeded *beautifully*. She took the recipe from Mama Dip's, and holy crud is it amazing. Mama Dip's, for those of you not in the Triangle area, is *the* place for southern cooking. She was tapped to personally cater Pres. Clinton's visit to the area, for instance. You haven't *had* fried chicken until you've tried hers. :) And I finally understood what the big deal was with greens after going to her restaurant for the first time almost 10 years ago.
Anyway, the pie is this wonderful sugar/egg/butter concoction with pecans perfectly cooked throughout, and the top nuts slightly caramelized. Oh. My. God. I seriously have never had a pecan pie this good. It's edging towards praline in a crust.
And I have a whole pie here to myself. Muahahahahahahahaha.
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*paws feebly at the screen*
Date: 2004-11-27 05:52 pm (UTC)*whimper*
(of course, what am I griping about? I had a fantastico key lime pie, and the girlfriend made The Really Damn Good Pumpkin Pecan Spice Cake of Doom... of which there are leftovers of both. So I'll shut up now)
Re: *paws feebly at the screen*
Date: 2004-11-28 05:41 am (UTC)Mmmm.... hand shelled pecans direct from the nut orchards...