Fruit Talk

[poliphilo]

We have lots of apples- and there are still plenty more on the tree. It's my father-in-law's tree but he isn't eating any. Ailz took some with her on a curtain-buying trip yesterday and handed them out to friends and family. Today I made apple sauce. I make good apple sauce. Cut apples up,  add a generous amount of fresh ginger, cook in orange juice or white wine (whichever is closer to hand), add sugar to taste (I don't add any because we're going low carb). My father-in-law also has a pear tree- and it's loaded  but not yet ready to pick.  I'm not fond of pears. I think they're bland- and I don't know of any way of fixing them I enjoy. His plum tree- which was brilliant last season and the season before- seems to have died. 

Comments

[silveredmane.livejournal.com]

I like pears poached in cranberry juice or diluted pomegranate molasses - sometimes with a spoon of warm mascarpone cheese and the rest of the poaching liquid drizzled over the top.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. The thing about pears seems to be that you add flavours to them. They don't really stand alone.