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Recipe: Watercress & Endive Salad with Pears & Roquefort

From NYTimes Cooking Ingredients: 1 large, ripe but firm pears 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice 2 tablespoons pecans 1 ounce, lightly toasted 1 bunch watercress, trimmed about 4 ounces 2 endives, broken into leaves 2 ounces Roquefort, Stilton or another

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Recipe: Cornmeal Crepes with Pear and Fig

This recipe has been adapted from Bon Appetite Ingredients:  1 large egg 1⁄2 cup whole milk 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour 1⁄4 cup cornmeal 2 Tbsp. sugar 1⁄2 tsp. vanilla extract 1⁄8 tsp. kosher salt 11⁄4 cups heavy cream, divided Unsalted

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Recipe: Chef Becky’s Pear Galette

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Ingredients 2 cups all purpose flour 6 oz unsalted butter 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons sugar 6-8 tb spoon ice water (will vary) a few pears, sliced to fill 1 tb spoon sugar and 1 1 tb spoon flour for sprinkling 1

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Recipe: Pear, Walnut and Ginger Bread

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  Ingredients 1 c. all-purpose flour ½ c. whole-wheat flour 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp. ground cardamom 1/4 tsp. freshly-grated nutmeg scant 1 c. vanilla sugar 1/4 c. oil or applesauce 1/3

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Recipe: Pear and Gorgonzola Pizza

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Ingredients 1 batch pizza dough, either home made or purchased 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese ½ cup crumbled blue cheese, divided 2 pears, cored and sliced ½ tablespoon butter ¼ cup toasted walnuts or hazelnuts, coarsely chopped 1/4 cup olive

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