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"I'd never heard of this dessert until I ate it in a small hotel at the foot of the French Pyrenees. I came back home and was able to find this recipe on the internet-- I believe a French cuisine website, but the name escapes me. Quick, easy, and yummy, too. Preparation time includes resting time."

Ingredients: eggs, milk, pears...

"Wonderful French Dessert.
Different, simple to make with a fantastic presentation.
Hope you enjoy!"

Ingredients: eggs, milk, pears...

"A delicious low fat and EASY dessert to impress! A wonderful mix of ingredients that is great served with home-made ice cream or creme fraiche. These pears cook quite happily in the microwave - as well as the more conventional baking or stove top method too. A recipe I devised for our Bed & Brekafast last Autumn, after a huge harvest of pears from..."

Ingredients: creme fraiche, dried cranberries...

"Roasted pears put a sweetly fresh spin on a perennial cocktail-party favourite.
From Food and Drink."

Ingredients: brie round, fresh thyme, pears...

"Buttery Brie, ripe pears, sweet toasted walnuts an elegant Sandwiches."

Ingredients: brie cheese, Italian bread...

"A deep coloured, fruity and intensely flavoured chutney. I concocted this recipe last year, when we had lots of windfall pears......and, I slipped a bit of saffron in for good measure! This chutney is delicious with ALL cheeses, but especially strong hard cheeses such as Farmhouse Cheddar, Gruyere, Comte and Cantal. It also goes exceedingly well with..."

Ingredients: cider vinegar, cooking apples...

"These wonderful little tartelettes are made from a combination of ripe, sweet pears with tangy, sharp Roquefort blue cheese and aromatic rosemary.They make an excellent and very elegant starter; they are also wonderful if served as a light luncheon dish, with salads and chutney or pickles. The galettes can be assembled several hours in advance - or..."

Ingredients: gorgonzola, fresh ground pepper...

"Fruit pies always make a good dessert, I think. Based on the reviews, I don't think any changes are necessary for this adopted recipe. The reviewer's suggestion of lemon juice instead of orange juice is a great idea if you're like me and always have lemons or lemon juice but rarely keep orange juice in the house."

Ingredients: cinnamon, ginger, orange juice...

"Clafouti is a moist, custardy, fruit-filled "pancake". It is delicious, simple to throw together, and a surefire way to impress breakfast or brunch guests. They'll think you worked much harder than you did.

Try some simple substitutions with items on hand. Tart apples are excellent in lieu of the pears.

From Bon..."

Ingredients: eggs, half and half milk...

"Pears roasted in salt, drizzled with caramel sauce. Sounds lovely, doesn't it? Adapted from Martha Stewart magazine."

Ingredients: coarse salt, bosc pears...

"A delicately decadent dessert - elegant yet easy enough to prepare for your most honoured guests! Found on FoodNetwork. Courtesy of Simple French Desserts by Jill O'Connor. "This classic French dessert is enriched by poaching the pears in a caramelized sugar syrup spiked with fresh ginger and Poire William, a heady pear brandy. You can drizzle..."

Ingredients: pistachios, caramel sauce...

"You can use this with apples or pears. Variation below. If using apples, be sure to use firm ones, preferably granny smith or golden delicious. To thaw puff pastry, thaw overnight in the fridge (preferred method). If you don't have that kind of time, thaw on the counter for 30-60 minutes. It should unfold easily, but feel firm. If seams crack,..."

Ingredients: frozen puff pastry, Grand Marnier...

"Another French recipe from my mother-in-law that I translated and converted. This cake is one of my favorites! Enjoy!"

Ingredients: eggs, milk, oil...

"An elegant and sophisticated salad that makes good use of verjus (verjuice) in the dressing. I use a local blue cheese, such as Roquefort in this salad; however, please do use a local blue cheese of your choice - any creamy or robust blue cheese will marry well with the pears and tart dressing. Verjuice, or verjus, is the juice of unripe grapes. This..."

Ingredients: butter lettuce, bartlett pears...