Blue Cheese and Pear Tarts

"I actually haven't had the time to try this recipe yet, but I bet it's really decadent and just totally yummy so I'm posting it here just in case it gets lost in my piles of magazines."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Peel pears. Rub peeled pears with the cut side of half a lemon.
  • Combine water, sugar,and remaining lemons in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes to dissolve the sugar.
  • Carefully drop in pears. Simmer and poach pears just until tender (about 20 minutes).
  • Remove pears and place in a bowl to cool. Preheat oven to 425°F.
  • Roll out half the puff pastry on a floured surface just until it's large enough to cut out two 4 inch rounds. Repeat with remaining half of puff pastry, discarding scraps.
  • Place pastry rounds on baking sheet and top each with cheese.
  • Thinly slice pears and fan over cheese.
  • Sprinkle with demerara sugar.
  • Bake in the centre of the preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes or until pastry is golden and cheese is bubbling. Remove to a rack to slightly cool.
  • Whip cream and 1 tablespoon sugar ina bowl with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
  • Stir in plain yogurt until blended.
  • To serve, sprinkle warm tarts with walnuts and a dollop of whipped cream.

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Reviews

  1. As I was hunting for a savory tart and not a dessert, I opted to use this recipe as a guide and work out the details as I went. I omitted all the sugar and just did a basic pastry dough recipe, cooked it weighted for about 10-15 minutes. I then topped the baked crust with 2 thinnly sliced pears, a small bulb of fennel that I sliced very thinly, then sauted it for about 5 minutes. Then topped it with a good quality blue cheese (I used Maytag). In a 350 oven for 15 minutes until cheese was melted and beginning to brown. Perfect, in my less than humble opinion. Not so much a review as a redo...
     
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I live in Victoria, British Columbia. I am happily married to the most wonderful guy on earth:) Aside from being a wanna be chef, I am also a wanna be children's book author, and a famous crooner in the shower aside from being a frustrated painter/illustrator and a real trying hard golfer. I love experimenting with different dishes from countries all over the world. I am constantly experimenting with new recipes and different types of fresh herbs and spices. I collect cookbooks and magazines. Most of the recipes I've posted and I will be posting are from the different magazines such as Bon Appetite, Chatelaine, Cucina, Hello, Home Maker and Gourmet. I will also try to post recipes that I've grown up with as well as those that came from family and friends.
 
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