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Category: Appetizers

Baked Pears With Blue Cheese

These baked pears with blue cheese encompass so many flavors and textures! Tender, juicy pears are baked with maple syrup and thyme sprigs, then stuffed with blue cheese and walnuts, a bit of salt and pepper, and drizzled with more maple syrup.  Sweet, savory, tender, and crunchy all in one baked fruit!  They make an elegant and delicious appetizer or snack, and they are even quite healthy!

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Kabocha Squash Toasts

Are you looking for an appetizer that is as colorful as it is flavorful?  With roasted kabocha squash, ricotta cheese, and onions cooked in a maple syrup-apple cider vinegar reduction, these kabocha squash toasts are so tangy and so delicious! The maple syrup-cider vinegar reduction is what makes these toasts so special to me.  As the sautéed onions simmer in the sweet/sour mixture, they take on a soft, jammy texture and a smoky flavor that blends beautifully with the slightly nutty flavor of the kabocha squash.  Add that lusciousness to ricotta cheese, and you have a wonderful meeting of flavors and textures.

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