Janet's Continental Pecan Pie W/ Honey Glazed Pecans
By: Janet Metzger
Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 4:18pm

Ingredients




Filling:

4 eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
3 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla(real..don't you dare use imitation!)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup pecan chopped
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips (I used minis, but any will work)
Pie crust from blog post Feb.4 2010

http://theemptynest-janet.blogspot.com/

For your nut topping you will need

 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter.. please use real butter... don't make me come over there!
3 tablespoons honey
1 1/2 cups pecan halves

Preparation

1 Prepare pie crust according to Feb. 4th 2010 posting. I thought I would do something a little special with this pie. After I placed my dough into my pie pan, I used a small circle cutter to make little round discs. I moistened the crust edge with beaten egg white and gently pressed them into place all around the pie edge. Brushed again with the egg white and sprinkled with sugar. Now doesn't that look so very Martha Stewart? Next I beat the eggs in a large bowl at low speed until they were blended. With a spoon, stir in your sugar, corn syrup, butter, vanilla and salt, until blended. 2 Stir in chips and chopped nuts 3 At this point you can embellish the pie with 1 Tbl of good Bourbon or just embellish yourself with the Bourbon... whatever 4 For your nut topping you will need 5 Cup firmly packed brown sugar 6 Tbl butter.. please use real butter... don't make me come over there! 7 Tbl honey 8 Cups pecan halves 9 In a medium saucepan, combine b. sugar, butter and honey. 10 Cook about 2 minutes or until the sugar dissolves, then add the pecans and stir until coated 11 Pour your egg mixture into you pie crust  and bake at 350 degree for 35 min. Cover edge with foil if needed to prevent over browning. 12 Now remove the pie from the oven and carefully spoon the pecan topping over the pie. You can arrange the nut halves to look pretty if you like. 13 Back in the oven she goes for about 10- 20 minutes or until bubbly and crust is golden

About


I have a little story to go along with this recipe.."of course she does" you say. Back in the 90's when I lived in Houston, I worked for Continental Airlines. Our Reservations office was home to what seemed like millions of women.. talk about raging hormones! At any given time you could identify at least 78 women PMS-ing and making plans to do away with their husbands and runaway with the pool boy. I also.. left many, many wonderful friends behind when I moved to Virginia (hello Steph, Judy, Veronica...). Ok, back to the pie... we were always having contest in the office and the typical prizes were things like: trips to Mexico, Europe, California and pretty much anywhere Continental flew. Yes we had many travel perks ;-)  Well one 4th of July, they announced a pie baking contest. Of course I had to enter.. that is my kind of challenge. I looked through my many cookbooks and found three pies I liked and could not decide between. I ended up taking the best part of each one and creating a whole new pie. I only baked the one pie and never even got to taste it. Well guess what?............ there you go being smart again! I Won first place! My prize was a trip to San Fransisco w/ accommodations at the beautiful St. Regis Hotel. It was a fabulous trip.