Pears • How to Core

Every season, Mother Nature brings us a wide variety of delicious produce. During spring there’s asparagus, celeriac, fiddleheads, radicchio, spinach, radishes and others before summer comes along with berries then peaches, zucchini, apricots, eggplants, plums, etc. Slowly fall arrives and gives more gorgeous crops like apples, pumpkin, cranberries, Brussels sprouts, pears, leeks, and more. When winter finally gets here, there is another bunch of lovely produce including turnips, beets, cabbage, garlic, potatoes, carrots, and so on.
 
When it comes to pears, I can’t get enough of them! They are so juicy and perfect to use in salads (Pear Pomegranate Blue Cheese Salad), smoothies, jams, as an ingredient for pork, duck or lamb, in sandwiches (Grilled Brie, Ham & Pear Sandwich), for breakfast, making sauces, and obviously desserts (Poires Belle Hélène, Diplomate, or Poached Pears with Caramel Sauce).
 
Like apples, the seeds have to be removed. In this Pears • How to Core episode, I’ll show you the simplest way to remove the seeds without cutting the fruit in half. What you need is a melon baller, that’s all! When poaching the fruit, it cooks better without the core plus I don’t think you want your guests eating the seeds.
 
Pears • How to Core is a good method to know especially when you want to keep the fruit whole. Many cooks out there like to cut it in half, remove the seeds, poach the fruit then put each half together. Why? It takes next to no time to do it plus the appearance is nicer than two halves leaning against each other.
 
For a beautiful presentation, use this easy Pears • How to Core method next time you want to serve Poires Belle Hélène or my other recipe which is Poached Pears with Caramel Sauce. Also, try to keep the stem on, it looks more… foody!
Bon Appétit!
 
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