Culinary question. Someone gave us some homemade pear butter, which is good - but which we find way sweeter than we like. I thinking maybe there is some sort of cookie or cake, or pastry or sweetbread recipe we could use it as the main sweetener for, and have the delicious flavor without the overwhelming sweetness. Any suggestions?
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
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Typo Boy - Jan 15, 2007 8:44:28 am PST #883 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Volans - Jan 15, 2007 9:06:49 am PST #884 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Gronk, and wah. So much for my 4-day weekend. So much for our trip to Thessaloniki. I had to go in to work all day Friday, half of Saturday, and all day today.
I'm burnt out and the week hasn't even started yet.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 15, 2007 9:08:53 am PST #885 of 10001
What is even happening?
Gar, I wonder if it would be good spread on the skin of chicken you were going to roast or bake. You could doctor it -- add some salt, maybe, to cut the sweet.
I don't know about baking, hmmm. If you had a recipe for a pretty plain sugar cookie, one that took butter, it might be good in something like that.
eta...Poor Raq.
Ginger - Jan 15, 2007 9:15:46 am PST #886 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are apple butter and applesauce cakes and breads, so pear would probably work. The cakes are usually some variation on spice cake.
sumi - Jan 15, 2007 9:21:09 am PST #887 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, and applecakes ARE delicious so I'm sure that pear cake would be too.
Amy - Jan 15, 2007 9:23:39 am PST #888 of 10001
Because books.
You could also try the pear butter on something with a lot of flavor and saltiness, like pumpernickel bread.
vw bug - Jan 15, 2007 9:28:12 am PST #889 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Exhaustion just hit me. I have an ironed quilt top and back lying on my bed, so I can't lie down. Waaaaaaaaa...
t /whine
Cass - Jan 15, 2007 9:29:08 am PST #890 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Sofa. Duh.
vw bug - Jan 15, 2007 9:30:01 am PST #891 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Sofa. Duh.
Well, yes, but the bed's more comfy. Hence the whine :).
Cass - Jan 15, 2007 9:57:13 am PST #892 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oh, so a first-world whine. Proceed.
I just decided to color my hair. Because I was bored, yes. And then my eyebrows. I think I am going to have to redo the eyebrows. Looking at them both while still covered in their respective dyes, I think the brows are not only lacking in any red at all, they are subtly ash. This does not bode well. Time will tell. At worst I am hunting down some of the stuff I use on my brows in a more me-friendly shade later today. This is why boredom is bad. At least when there are boxes of hair color around.