Firefly's Lounge Is Now Open

We've got an unlimited supply of coffee, tea, and sandwiches---and anything else you'd like to have--to keep the over-night crew energized and playing.

Er-herm!!!!!! Aussie here, Aussie.....Aussie.....

Of course, I meant Aussie, FS

And the early morning U.K. crew. Better add some breakfast goodies for them.

Where is osso? Doesn't she want to play?

I've not seen them for ages. I remember if you unwrapped them carefully you could fold the empty wrapper so it looked like the biscuit was still there.

These are being sold off cheap right now.

Anyone want some pizza?

I'll be back, have to see if my car battery is alive.

Was it? Alive?

Yes! (Long story, which I'll forego the telling thereof).

I just made some apple asian pear plum cake - something like this:



http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/chunky-apple-cake
Let's say I used the idea.
Breakfast!

It looks and sounds amazing!

That looks quite nice, but not for breakfast. A nice pudding in the evening or a slice at tea. (Are Asian pears a type of pear or a way of spicing up ordinary pears.)

I think Asian pears are a type of pear, but they look and taste more like apples and can be used interchangeably with apples in cooking and baking.

I love that type of fruit cake--it's sort of like a deep dish pie. I probably could be persuaded to eat it for breakfast. In the summer, I imagine it would be delicious made with peaches or nectarines.

mmmmmm fruit pie for breakfast

that's a great idea

especially if there's some nice cheese on the side

pear pie with blue cheese

there's an idea for Sunday morning!

oh my

there are a lot of recipes that have pears and blue cheese in tarts - together!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/wensleydale_blue_cheese_91140

and crostata

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/pear-crostata-with-honey-blue-cheese-and-almonds-recipe.html


I will have to make one of these

When I was very little my mother told me a rhyme. "Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze."

After that we never spoke again.

So why do us Aussies, go for Apple pie with cream.
Apple strudel
Apple sauce

And with cheese, well that's on a toastie or over pasta or on top of schnitzel.

Can you tell I am hungry?

They're different and I like them a lot. Maybe they are part apple, I haven't searched/or forget. I might like them better than some US pears re taste. First of all, the one I used lasted a loooong time in the refrigerator and still tasted great. I'll be buying them again.

On the recipe link shown by me, I used brown sugar on this one, running out of regular store cane sugar at the time. That was annoying, as the brown sugar had finally done it's dry-up thing, so I had to microwave it. The cake came out quite dense, in a good way.

I fooled with the recipe since I only had one half of a fresh big Delicious apple (which I usually don't buy, re flavor, but this was the season and they looked good for a change), the asian pear, and some of the plums left over from stewing a few weeks ago (frozen in the stewing syrup, I put them in smoothies too). Nothin' like the 6 cups of fruit the recipe called for.

The recipe sounded on the dry side, getting its liquid in fair part from the juice in the fruit, so I threw in some tablespoons of water. (Whadda cook) I had used maybe a 4th less sugar, and when I do it again, I'll cut it to half.

Despite all that, I see it as an easy recipe, keeper. Oh, I didn't make any sauce. It's just me here.

I come from a pie for breakfast family, cousins, aunts, uncles...
not all so often, but whenever there is a pie around that hasn't been devoured yet.

My mother liked cheese with apple pie. Me, eh.

Pear crostata, oh yes. And I've liked Tyler Florence's recipes before, or at least one. And, I've liked all the blue cheese I've ever tasted, so far. Will try it, probably with regular pears.

Now I'm asking myself if American pears are like our pears. Damn it woman, the more you tell me, the more confused I become.