pear recipes

Here's the sandwich.Here's how this came about.You know when you're on Facebook and the activity of your friends shows up in the little feed area on the right side?And then the voyeur in all of us has to do the cyber stalk thing and click on one of tho...

If you’re looking for something really special and really simple to make for that special someone on Valentine’s Day (or any occasion for that matter) try this.  This recipe, from the Cooking Channel by Laura Calder,  CANNOT be beat.  I...

Curried chicken salad with comice pear and pomegranate seeds Makes about 6 1/4 cups (8 servings) Chunks of creamy comice pear contrast nicely with the crunch of cashews and pomegranate seeds. Make ahead: The salad can be composed a day or t...

One of my favorite food blogs of late is Smitten Kitchen. The name is cute. The writing is great. The recipes are fantastic and easy enough to follow. When one of my besties over at Puppies & Pancakes raved about a Smitten Kitchen fruit dessert (of...

This recipe is from "The Sunset Cookbook." A mix of vivid chartreuse and bronze lettuces really sets off the fruits' colors. Courtesy Sunset

Here's a dessert that's truly holiday worthy. It's dramatic, tasty, easy to make ahead, and best of all, it's on the healthy side of the dessert cart! Ingredients: 4 Bosc pears (or use other firm pears such as Bartlett)1-1/2 cups sugar1 cup red wine, s...

  Salted caramel – it’s sweet, salty, rich and simply delicious. Recently I made some wonderful salted caramel cupcakes (complete with salted caramel buttercream and filled with salted caramel) and homemade salted caramel mocha to rival Starbucks’ version. I couldn’t help but continue down this path of deliciousness. We’ve all had caramel apples, but I’d never tried...

The ice cream-making bug has hit me again. I thought I would be safe, now that the weather has turned from sweltering to pleasantly warm.  Then I remembered that I'm one of those silly folks who craves frozen confections more in the colder months...