{"id":70104,"date":"2022-03-15T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=70104"},"modified":"2022-11-24T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:21:13","slug":"qotd-pecan-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/03\/15\/qotd-pecan-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Pecan pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The pecan pie is the highest expression of the pie-making art, and it is uncomfortable when well-meaning people tout silly and pale reflections of pie as somehow superior.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t even discuss the lowly pumpkin pie, which reminds me of nothing more than the goo that seeps out of a broken sewage pipe or the remains of the vegetable bin after a 10-day blackout.<\/p>\n<p>You apple pie people may have a point, but really, the best part of any apple pie is the crust, so just climb down off that high horse!<\/p>\n<p>Blueberry you say? Yes, I will grant the glory of a well-made blueberry pie, but on the second day it is a soggy mess, while my pecan pie is a wonderful accompaniment to a great cup of coffee. And bacon. But that doesn&#8217;t even have to be said.<\/p>\n<p>Key lime and Boston cream and &#8230; um &#8230; other pies are certainly good eating, but for sheer pie power and authority there is nothing quite like American pecan pie served after a sumptuous Thanksgiving dinner.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/Perfect%20Pecan%20Pie.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s my go-to recipe<\/a> &#8230; probably from <em>Cooks Illustrated<\/em>, but I don&#8217;t remember]<\/p>\n<p>CBD, <a href=\"https:\/\/acecomments.mu.nu\/?post=396574\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Food Thread: Family, Friends And Pecan Pie &#8230; But Mostly Pecan Pie &#8230; And Family And Friends!&#8221;, <em>Ace of Spades H.Q.<\/em><\/a>, 2021-11-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pecan pie is the highest expression of the pie-making art, and it is uncomfortable when well-meaning people tout silly and pale reflections of pie as somehow superior. I won&#8217;t even discuss the lowly pumpkin pie, which reminds me of nothing more than the goo that seeps out of a broken sewage pipe or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,57,41,13],"tags":[1276,1388,1496],"class_list":["post-70104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-cooking","tag-recipes","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ieI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72302,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70104\/revisions\/72302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}