Arizona Pecan Pie

This is a small modification to a recipe from the Santa Cruz Valley Pecan Company. It uses Green Valley Pecans and has a bit of a bite to it.

Pecan Pie Twist

9" frozen pie crust shell (or you make yours from scratch)
3/4 cup sugar

2 tbsp. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. vanilla
2/3 cup light corn syrup
1/3 cup molasses
2 eggs
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 cup Green Valley Brand Pecans


Combine sugar, flour and salt in mixing bowl. Stir in corn syrup and molasses. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in evaporated milk, pecans and vanilla. Pout into crust. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes, or until firm. Cool before serving. Makes 1-9 inch pie. Enjoy!

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The science fiction novel Snow Crash (1992), the third novel by Neal Stephenson, follows in the footsteps of cyberpunk novels by such authors as William Gibson and Rudy Rucker, though Stephenson breaks away from this tradition by embellishing this story with a heavy dose of satire and black humor.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Oscar Wilde

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How do you measure a year in the life of a person? I like to think its in the number of times they laugh. A good hearty belly laugh. The kind we see when we watch the innocense of a infant. The kind that shakes your whole body from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. This is the laughter that some call the medicine of life. It cures the soul and warms the heart. Like castles in the air, this laughter stretches our imagination to the fair reaches of our minds. When was the last time you laughed like this? When was the last time you watched someone laugh like this? It's contagious. Isn't it? Give it a try today and make the count. Count them until they add up to a year you look back on with a warmness in your heart it melts the snow white blanket on your castles in the air.

Help me Dear Lord
To treasure what is right in front of me.
Help me to cheerish the moment.
Notice the beauty right here right now.
Aprpeciate the aroma of life today and always give thanks.
Let me not focus upon the things of the world.
Rather let me focus from the center of my heart unto the true meaning of life.
Help me fully recognize that yesterday is an empty container.
It can never be captured again.
Today is the only day that I can live.
It is the day I can love.
I cannot live and love yesterday.
I cannot live and love tomorrow.
It is only in today that I can find you Dear Lord.