Risa

As a Canadian who lives right next to our French friends in Quebec .... the only pie that trumps the sweetness of pecan pie ... is French Canadian Sugar Pie.

I had an old French Canadian neighbor who used to make them every Christmas and gift us one every year .... it gave you temporary diabetes and would literally make you see stars if you ate a second piece.

I asked the husband once what the ingredients were and he named just about every type of sugar substance in the kitchen ... white sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, maple syrup, condensed milk. And in traditional northern rural Quebec fashion, it was an enormous pie.

It is a necessary part of keeping my soul intact