Roasted pears with blue cheese

By fsilver4

Fabulous with a salad.

Ingredients

• 3 ripe anjou pears
• lemon juice (3 lemons)
• 3 ounces crubmled sharp blue cheese such as stilton
• 1/4 cup dried cranberries
• 1/4 cup walnut halves, toasted and chopped
• 1/2 cup apple cider
• 3 tablespoons port
• 1/3 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
• 1/4 cup olive oil

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 375*

Peel the pears and slice them lengthwise into halves. With a small, sharp paing knife and melon baller, remove the core and seeds from each pear, leaving a round well for the filling. Trim small slice away from the roundd sides of each pea half so that they will sit in the baking dish without wobbling. Toss the pears with lemon juice to prevent them from turning brown. Arrange them, core side up, in a bakng dish large enough to hold the pears snugly.
Gently toss the crumbled blue cheese, dried cranberries, and walnuts together in a small bowl. Divide the mixture among the pears, mounding it on top of the indentation.

In the same small bowl, combine the apple cider, port, and brown sugar, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Pour the mixture over and around the pears. Bake the pears, basting occasionally with the cider mixture, for 30 minutes, or until tender. Set aside until warm or at room temperature. ust before serving, whisk together the olive oil, 1/4 cup lemon juice, and 1/4 cup of the basing liquid in a large bowl. Add salad greens of choice drizzle over dressing and lay the pear on top.