In Charleston, S.C. we have a dish where they take a chicken breast and thigh and encrust it in crushed up pecans and bake it. It's unreal good.
I did an interview with this really nice old black man who was actually born in a slave cabin on Boone Hall when it was a pecan plantation. He said every dish they made had pecans in it. Pecans were the main source of protein. If they had pancakes, it had pecans in it. Pie, cake, stew, grilled and fried. Nice old guy was working into his late 80s and lived to be 90 something.