3 cranberry blue cheese pastries Recipes

shortcrust pastry dough (enough pastry to fit a 13-inch x 9-inch pyrex baking dish), olive oil, butter, red onions, halved, thinly sliced (about 2 lb), balsamic vinegar, dried herbes de provence (or a mixture of your favourite herbs), salt (or to taste), freshly-cracked black pepper (or to taste), dried cranberries, halved, crumbled blue cheese (about 4 oz), sliced almonds (about 4 oz)

sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed for 30 minutes (1/2 package), very ripe juicy fragrant pears, peeled and chopped, sugar, blue cheese, crumbled, dried cranberries or dried cherries