I recently received a windfall of hard green pears from Angela after a branch broke from her tree, thereby rushing the pear harvest. As perhaps you can tell from the photo, the pears were small, the round bottom portion about the size of a handball, and they weren’t yet ripe. I let the pears sit […]
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Recipe mashup (and mixup) yields individual tartes Tatin
October 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Food preparation, local food, recipes
After years of attraction to, but avoidance of, tarte Tatin recipes, I finally gave in the other day so as to use my latest free food—old-fashioned, gritty pears from my neighbors’ tree. Angela & Michael have a prolific pear tree that had been heavy with fruit but was nearing the end of its production. I […]
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Roasted pears make simple work of local dessert
September 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments · local food, potlucks, recipes
Lucky me. I found myself in possession of a selection of succulent local pears. Even though these are quite lovely eaten raw, I decided to use nearly all of them as the basis for my local-food contribution to yesterday’s local wine-local food dinner. At first, I thought I’d make a pear tart of some kind, […]