I use a recipe from a Cook's Illustrated magazine from at least 10 years ago. I googled it, and found it, so I'm copying and pasting here:
Perfect Pecan Pie
(adapted from Cooks Illustrated)
Ingredients
9-inch pie crust, unbaked and well chilled
1 large egg yolk , beaten with 1/8 teaspoon water
6 tablespoons unsalted margarine , cut into 1-inch pieces
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
½ teaspoon table salt
3 large eggs
¾ cup light corn syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups whole pecans (8 ounces), toasted and chopped into small pieces
Prick sides and bottom of the crust with a fork and line entire crust with heavy-duty aluminum foil, pressing foil firmly against crust and extending it over the edges. Prick foil with fork and return shell to refrigerator while oven is heating.
Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to 400 degrees. Bake, pressing once or twice with mitt-protected hands, if necessary, to flatten any puffing, until crust is firmly set, about 15 minutes. Remove foil and continue to bake until bottom begins to color, about 10 minutes longer. Remove from oven, brush sides and bottom with egg yolk, and return to oven until yolk glazes over, about 1 minute longer. Remove from oven, and set aside while preparing the filling.
Lower oven temperature to 275 degrees. Place pie shell in oven if not still warm.
Melt the margarine in a medium heatproof bowl set in skillet of water maintained at just below simmer. Remove bowl from skillet; mix in sugar and salt with wooden spoon until margarine is absorbed. Beat in eggs, then corn syrup and vanilla. Return bowl to hot water; stir until mixture is shiny and warm to the touch, about 130 degrees. Remove from heat; stir in pecans.
Pour mixture into warm shell; bake until center feels set yet soft, like gelatin, when gently pressed, 50 to 60 minutes. Transfer pie to rack; let cool completely, at least 4 hours. Serve pie at room temperature or warm*, with cinnamon or vanilla ice cream if desired.
* If you want warm pie, cool the pie thoroughly, then cut and warm it in a 250-degree oven for about twenty minutes.
When my daughter moved out, she needed this recipe for her first Thanksgiving dinner.
It's dumb proof! I've been making it for years. My dad made it for years before me.
The family wanted a pecan pie on holidays, but MIL was a chocoholic. She would SAY she was bringing a pecan pie and then show up with the chocolate pecan pie. After a couple of years of this, I had to specifically tell her REAL pecan pie and not the chocolate one. I had to resort to making a pecan pie one year, and everyone ate it and not the chocolate pecan pie. She stopped bringing it after that. 
