Pear Ginger Cake---Dig the groovy 70's saucer:


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I'm writing a short story in which a character who has an excess of fresh pears is asked to cater for a small gathering after a funeral (think sausage rolls and half-sandwiches). What could he make with the pears that they could eat? I was thinking some sort of crumble or tart, but...

Well, this isn't quite a New Year's resolution, but I have decided to clean my cupboards out. And rather than just throw everything, I figured I should find some way to work each of the items into a menu. I pulled out five things that have been hanging around a while to start with. The pasta mix and the bread mix are easy to figure out, and the ( Read more... )

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I get home exhaused after a long night of teaching evening microbiology classes to freshmen. Blood sugar is low, mouth is dry from lecturing, can't think, need food ( Read more... )

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My pork, cabbage and apples I posted about the other night came out great! The only thing I should have done is thrown the apples in later, and used different apples, because the apples I did use virtually turned into sauce - however, it thickened the chicken stock/apple-cranberry juice mix that was in there and turned out a lovely thickened sauce ( Read more... )

Just quickly: THANK YOU for all the great suggestions. Im assessing my pantry to see which ones will work the best for what I have on hand ( Read more... )

I have an abundance of pears waiting for use. I was thinking of poaching some of them, but most of the liquids I find listed for poaching are alcohol based. Im pregnant, and simply dont have any in the house ( Read more... )