Thursday, February 12, 2009

chef for a day....if only in my head

I love to cook. On occasion if I make a food that is delicious and simple, I may post it. No worries, I have no intention of turning this site into a cooking blog. I call this Pear Puff. Now, here's the deal. There may be an exact recipe out there like this. I'm not saying I invented this dessert, nor will I be going on tour to promote it. When I did a Google recipe search, I wasn't finding what I had in mind, so I compromised and came up with this.


ingredients:
1 Pepperidge Farm puff pastry sheet (thaw for 40 min. on non-stick cooking sheet)
2 pears, sliced (I like Bosc pears....ripe, but not mushy)
1/4 c. raisins (optional)
2 T. butter
3 T. honey
cinnamon sprinkle mix (1 t. cinn. w/2 T. sugar)
1 egg w/1 T. water)
Preheat oven to 400*. In a 9" fry pan, melt butter w/honey. Place sliced pears and raisins in pan and saute for 5 min. On pastry sheet, arrange pears slightly overlapping - leaving a 2" edge around square puff. Turn up edge to form a barrier. Brush edge of crust with egg batter. Sprinkle cinnamon mix on entire dessert, not forgetting edge and just enough to lightly cover all.
Place in oven on middle shelf and cook for 25 minutes.
This is great warm with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream, but even more delicious the next day for breakfast w/coffee!

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