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    Pears with blue cheese and walnuts

    Ann M. Evans 
    Author, Davis Farmers Market Cookbook, Revised Edition

    Pears with blue cheese and walnuts

    Cookbook author Ann Evans gives the classic combination of pears, blue cheese and walnuts a twist by roasting the pears. "Roasting them slowly with butter intensifies their natural buttery flavor and helps to cook them to juicy spoon-softness," she said.

    Pears with blue cheese and walnuts

    Ingredients

    4 pears, halved and cored
    2 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
    4 to 6 oz. blue cheese
    2 tbsp. chopped walnuts

    Directions

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush butter over pear halves, skin and cut side. Put pear halves, cut side down, in a baking dish just large enough to accommodate them. Using a pastry brush, coat pear halves with butter.

    Bake pears until tender to a fork, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven, turn pears over and dab a spoonful of blue cheese in the center of each pear half. Sprinkle pears evenly with walnuts, return the dish to the oven and bake until cheese is warm, 2 to 3 minutes.

    Transfer pears to individual plates and serve warm.

    Serves 8