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Stewed Apples And Pears

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I got a craving for something sweet and warm on a recent cold, rainy evening. Thus, the stewed apples and pears were born. Imagine, its drizzling rain and just beginning to move from dusk to darkness in the forty degree weather. It is chilling to the bone and I am attempting to warm myself up with some tea in a coffee shop by union square. As I go through piles of short narrative stories as a homework assignment, I stumble upon one particular story that contains a mouth-watering description of a childhood comfort food: stewed pears. The account described the sweet aromas of fruit sugars mixed with cinnamon wafting through rooms and then goes on to describe the warm, soft texture of the fruits, stewed in their own thick syrup.  I had to get my hands on some of those pears! I stopped at a market on my way home from the coffee shop to gather the necessary ingredients. By the end of the night I was cozy in bed, savoring this warm winter dessert.

Ingredients

  • Sliced Apples
  • Sliced Pears
  • Cinnamon
  • Water
  • Honey
  • Salt
  • Lemon
  • Granola

Florentine Egg Souffle

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Lunch time! The other day I made this surprising little egg meal. The reason it is surprising is because the meal did not turn out to be little at all. I had no idea that eggs expanded so much! You can’t tell from the photo but that “coffee mug” is actually gigantic…probably at least 24 to 32 ounces in size. In the end I was unable to finish the whole thing because I can only eat so many eggs in one sitting… but it was still yummy.

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • Chopped spinach
  • Chopped tomato
  • Chopped garlic
  • Small diced mozzarella
  • Chopped onion

I sauteed the chopped spinach, garlic and tomato then mixed all the rest of the ingredients together and baked it in a ceramic mug for about twenty minutes.

Curried Pumpkin Soup with Apple and Onion Compote and Apple Crisp

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IT’S HALLOWEEN!!!! I am so excited i cannot contain myself. In college halloween is an all weekend, three day affair. However, three days really is not enough for me and I make it a full month event full of movies and costume hunting. This week I got some roomies and friends together and had a little halloween get together! It was really fun, I made dinner and then we spent the night watching halloween movies. My friend devon and I even made a little halloween music playlist. I wanted to make something festive for dinner and was a little apprehensive of what I was about to endeavor but somehow it miraculously turned out delicious! We had hot apple cider and I made a curried pumpkin soup with an apple onion compote on top and apple crisp for dessert! I never use recipes, and this time was no exception, hence why I was really worried. Pumpkin soup seems easy to mess up especially when apples are in the mix but I taste tested all along the way and it was great. It was really interesting to see how the guests reacted…I could tell they were sort of nervous to try the soup…none of them wanted to put apples on top but I forced them all to. The reason was because the apple onion compote MADE THE SOUP! Literally when you added the apples the soup went from pretty good to heavenly! I made my friends try at least one bite with the apples and they all agreed once they tried it how good it was. One of my roommates came in late and ate a bite off the stove, fell to the floor and proclaimed that it was an explosion of autumn in her mouth…

Ingredients

Curried Pumpkin Soup

  • Onions
  • Chopped carrots
  • Chopped celery
  • Garlic
  • Chicken Stock
  • Pumpkin Puree
  • Curry
  • Turmeric
  • Chili powder
  • Salt and pepper
  • Cream
  • Cinnamon
  • Brown Sugar

Apple Onion Compote

  • Chopped apples
  • Onions
  • Brown Sugar
  • Cinnamon
  • Nutmeg
  • Salt and Pepper

sauteed and reduced

Apple Crisp

  • Sliced apples
  • Cinnamon
  • Nutmeg
  • Flour
  • Brown sugar
  • Salt
  • Oats
  • Chilled chopped butter

The only problem with the apple crisp was that somehow I accidentally turned off the oven when I put the apple crisp in…I dont know why I did that! So in consequence the chopped butter that had been mixed with oats ended up melting down into the apples instead of forming a crispy covering…Everything still tasted great but there wasn’t really much of a crust.

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