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  On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...

Pecan Pie Without Corn Syrup (無玉米糖漿的核桃派)

I wanted to bake a pie for this year's Thanksgiving. I love Pecan Pie so it wasn't long before I decided to try make one. Upon Googling the recipe, I saw many recipes and I was shocked to see the amount of corn syrup normally used. I knew this is a sweet pie, but I didn't know that much sugar had to be added! Then, I came across a pecan pie recipe WITHOUT corn syrup from Spend With Pennies and immediately decided that was it! It's super easy and the ingredients are easy to find (most people probably already have most in their home). I only had to get brown sugar and pecans.
準備菜單的時候就想著要為今年感恩節烤個派. 我很愛河桃派 所以很快就決定了這次的派. 在Google上找食譜的時候, 看到了好多食譜 也同時嚇了一跳 原來這個派通常會用那麼多的玉米糖漿! 本就知道這個派滿甜的, 但以前不曉得原來會使用那麼多的糖! 後來, 看到了一個不使用玉米糖漿的和桃派食譜, 我馬上就決定了 就是這個派! 作法很簡單 食材也很普遍(大部分人大概家裡已有大部分食材了). 我只有需要另外買黑糖跟核桃.
Here's a link to the original recipe (原食譜連結): https://www.spendwithpennies.com/easy-pecan-pie/ 

I followed the majority of the instructions on Spend With Pennies so I won't list out the instructions here.

Here's a list for a few adjustments I made:
* I used 2% milk
* I used unsalted butter
* I used a glass pie pan

我幾乎是完全照著Spend With Pennies的做法 所以這邊就不另外再寫步驟了:
以下是我有稍作調整的清單:
* 我使用了脂肪含量2%的牛奶
* 我用了無鹽奶油
*我用的是玻璃的烤派盤

Here are my ingredients. Almost the whole bag of pecans (around 90%) was used. I saved just a little for making the sweet potato casserole.
我用的所有食材. 幾乎用了那一整袋的核桃(大概用了90%) 只為了棉花'糖甜薯燒保留了一點點的核桃.

I imaged making dumplings while folding up the edges...they turned out better than I anticipated 😁
邊捏派皮邊緣的時候 我邊想像是在捏水餃...結果成果比預想的還好.
 
The original recipe says to cover the edges with tinfoil so I ripped a few pieces of a tinfoil sheet and did my best with covering up the edges. One piece fell off while baking, and I left that part uncovered because I thought to compare covered vs uncovered. That part turned out alright, not much difference!
原食譜有說要把派皮邊邊用鋁箔紙包起來 所以我就撕了幾片盡可能的包了派皮的邊邊. 有一片在烤的時候有掉下來, 我就沒管它, 想說那就比較看看有包跟沒包的差別. 烤完後 發現沒甚麼差別耶

The pie came out smelling divine! I'm not kidding, 2 humans, 2 cats, and 1 dog all came to the kitchen after this pie came out of the oven!
派出爐的時候超香的! 我沒開玩笑, 從烤箱拿出來之後, 2人2貓1狗都聞香來廚房!
The pie was in the refrigerator over night, after it has cooled completely. It was taken out of the fridge to sit in room temperature for about 3 hours before it was served with Thanksgiving Dinner.
派冷卻之後 就冰在冰箱裡一整晚. 隔天拿出來在室溫放了3小時然後就跟著感恩節大餐一起吃囉.
Very flaky on the top, yet still gooey in the center, so delicious!
外表很香脆, 中間又黏稠, 超美味的!

💗CM

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