With this pear pie I had help from my niece. We had a good time making these pies.

We did do a flavor check on the flour right off to double check that it wasn’t powdered sugar or something like that. Nope just flour.

 

 

Next we sampled the pears to make sure they were good. We decided they were indeed good.

 

 

So we made some pie crust with salted butter. I know that’s wrong but we were not about perfect pie we were more about the perfect afternoon in the kitchen.

 

 

We could’ve cut the butter with a pastry blender and the crust might’ve come out more flaky… But she volunteered to use “her” pastry blender. Sure why not?

 

 

She’s just like her Gramma, she measures by eye. No measuring cup, no problem.

 

 

She had the crust in the pie pans in no time.

 

 

We got the filling in and put them in the oven, after we put the top crust on, it’s kinda busy with two cooks so I think I missed that picture.

 

 

She helped me clean up while we waited for the pies to bake.

 

 

Then we ate the pies.

the end.

 

Pear pie

ingredients

• 1 unbaked pie shell with top. or make you own pie crust
• 4-6 pears peeled and thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup Maple syrup
• 1/8 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice or orange juice
• 1/8 cup raisins or dried cranberries
• 2 tablespoons flour

 

In a bowl add sliced pears, lemon juice, dried fruit, syrup, sugar, and flour mix together. Pour into pie shell and place top crust on. Bake at 350 for an hour or until bubbly and lightly golden.

Let cool on a wire rack and serve when you can’t wait any longer.

Pies are fun to make because they’re easy. Berry pies are fun to make because they’re pretty and looking good is important. But how it tastes is what it’s really all about.

 

I knew I wanted blueberries in the pie, I remembered seeing a beautifully ripe pear in the fruit bowl well it’s a fruit plate here that pear would be perfect. I could  taste it, it was going to be just right. I looked on the fruit plate, but it wasn’t there. Then I remembered I’d eaten it only hours before! So I did the next best thing, got out a jar of pears that have been in a jar since who knows when.

I also threw in a handful of cranberries for flavor and color but not too many, I didn’t want it to be too sour.

 

I added some orange juice concentrate and honey

 

some sugar,maybe a bit more I was a little scared that the raw cranberries might be pretty sour.

 

Some flour to help thicken the juice.

 

Mixed it all together

 

Until it’s this beautiful color. I might be a faster pie maker if I didn’t stop and admire the pretty colors.

 

Pour the filling into a ready pie shell.

 

I rolled out the top crust into waxed paper so I could flop it onto the pie and hope it lands centered.

 

It was pretty close. I was happy.

 

I trimmed off the overhanging edges

 

Bake at 350 for 30- 40 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

 

Cool on a wire rack and serve.

 

Blueberry Pear pie

ingredients

• 1 unbaked pie shell and top (pie crust recipe)
• 11/2 cups frozen blueberries
• 1 cup canned pears
• 1/2 cup frozen cranberries
• 2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate
• 1/4 cup raw honey
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2-3 tablespoons flour

In a bowl mix blueberries, pears, cranberries, orange juice concentrate, honey, sugar, and flour. Pour into pie shell cut designs into top crust or make lattice or whatever you like.

Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown and juice is starting to thicken and bubble out.

Let cool a little and serve.

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Avocado gives smoothies an amazingly smooth texture. This morning decided to risk mixing blueberries and avocado, I know mixing green with reddish colors is a recipe for brown but I figured the avocado was kind of light green and blueberries have “Blue” in their name and I know blue and green are right next to each other on the color wheel so this just might be ok.

 

I got out a few things that I thought I might use. Fresh ginger, avocado, left over pears and some frozen blueberries.

I tried this green tea and white tea mix. I liked it waaay better than the straight green tea I used in my last green smoothie! I’m going to use this from now on and I don’t care if it may or may not be quite as good for me as the bitter plain green tea. This tea I will at least want to drink again.

I blended fresh minced ginger, a dash of vanilla, half an avocado, left over pears and their juice, 3 tablespoons of raw honey and some frozen blueberries  while the tea was steeping.

Once it was all smooth I poured in one cup of the green white tea and a few ice cubes and blended for a few seconds again.

Then I inspected the color and taste. Color was grayish, not nice. I then added a tablespoon of lemon juice, more ice cubes, and a frozen strawberry for color assistance. That did the trick.

 

I will definitely make this smoothie again.

 

Blueberry Avocado smoothie

ingredients

• 1/2 avocado
• 1/2 cup blueberries
• 2-4 pear slices and 1/2 cup of it’s light syrup
• 1 tablespoon minced ginger
• 3 tablespoons raw honey
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup green and white tea
• 1- 2 cups ice cubes
• 1 frozen strawberry cut into pieces

Blend avocado, blueberries, pears and syrup, ginger, honey, lemon juice, and vanilla until smooth. Add tea, ice cubes and strawberry. Blend until ice cubes are about half their size.

Serve immediately.