Pear & caramel icecream
July 18-19, 2015 Last week I enthusiastically renewed our vege box order with CERES .... except that I actually ordered an all-fruit box instead of a mixed fruit & veg box. We were beset by multitudes of bananas, apples, kiwi fruits, oranges and grapefruit, more than a dozen mandarins, a couple of limes and four pears. We've been working through them - stirring the limes into creme fraiche for sweet potato wedges , packing apples into our bags for work and punctuating our days at home with mandarin peeling. I made a big batch of rice pudding to enjoy with the kiwi fruits and some apple & walnut pancakes once, too. The bananas are only just ripe now. Three of the four pears went into this David Lebovitz icecream recipe, prepared for dessert when we had some friends over . They're cooked in caramel, blended smooth, then strained and churned into a rich, velvety scoop. The caramel procedure, which I've used for salted cara mel icecreams , always gets me nervous - it ...