I am partial to pecan pie that only I can make. I learned from my mom.
Not to give it away too much, but the custard part includes twelve separated eggs, two cups of sugar and a stick and a half of butter. (OK, now you have it. Cook the custard VERY slowly, add vanilla at the end) Float the whole mess on a pre-scorched crust. It takes about an hour to bake at three hundred degrees.
Can not really dis' anyone else's efforts, but it also requires the particularly oily and richly flavored pecans that only grow in Texas dry lands to actually work out right.
Fabulous!