5 blue ice pears Recipes

dried fruit compote with sambuca, this quick compote is a good choice for a winter dinner when you have little time to cook but want to make an impression. you can prepare it ahead (it s better made ahead), then spoon it over store-bought ice cream to create an original and memorable dessert. i also like it with blue cheese at the end of a meal, especially if there s a dessert wine on the table., dried peaches or nectarines, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried pears , cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried apricots, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips or quartered, golden raisins, dried cherries, water, sugar, cinnamon stick, lemon zest strips, fresh lemon juice, sambuca or other anise liqueur

firm-ripe anjou pears, peeled, cored, and chopped, sweet late harvest riesling , muscat, sauternes or montbazillac, pear nectar, sugar, fresh lemon juice, heavy cream, egg yolks, danish blue , or other creamy blue cheese, rind removed and crumbled, salt, honey, toasted chopped walnuts, phyllo cookies , recipe follows

dry white wine, water, granulated sugar, vanilla bean, cut and scraped, minced ginger, cardamom pod, cinnamon stick, lemon , zest of, seckle pears, peeled, half-and-half, salt, sugar, whole egg yolks, crumbled blue cheese, unsalted butter , plus (2 sticks), unsalted butter, at room temperature, divided, cake flour , plus, cake flour, divided, vanilla bean, cut and scraped , seeds reserved, sugar, eggs, baking powder, salt, sour cream, toasted walnuts, roughly chopped, sugar, water, fresh lemon juice, chopped rosemary , plus, whole rosemary sprigs, divided, heavy cream, whole milk, divided

dry white wine, water, granulated sugar, vanilla bean, cut and scraped, minced ginger, cardamom pods, cinnamon, peel from half a lemon, seckle pears, peeled, recipe walnut lb cake , recipe follows, recipe blue cheese ice cream , recipe follows, recipe rosemary caramel , recipe follows, unsalted butter plus 1 tbsp, at room temperature, divided, cake flour, divided, vanilla bean, cut and scraped , seeds reserved, sugar, eggs, baking powder, salt, sour cream, toasted walnuts, roughly chopped, half-and-half, salt, sugar, whole egg yolks, crumbled blue cheese, sugar, water, fresh lemon juice, chopped rosemary leaves plus 2 whole sprigs, divided, heavy cream, whole milk, divided