Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
pear 'n cranberry crisp
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Pear 'N Cranberry Crisp
Ingredients:
3 cups brown rice --- cooked accordin' to package directions
2 cups pears --- peeled, cored, and diced
1 cup chopped cranberries --- fresh or frozen
2/3 cup packed brown sugar --- divided
1/3 cup all-purpose flour --- divided
1/4 rolled oats --- not instant
1/4 butter
1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
1/4 cup flaked coconut
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 375�.
2) In a lightly greased 2 quart bakin' dish, combine the cooked rice, pears, cranberries, 1/3 cup of the brown sugar,
and 2 tablespoons of the flour, then set aside.
3) In a medium sized bowl, combine the remainin' brown sugar,
the remainin' flour, and the oats.
4) Cut the butter into the flour mixture with two knives,
'til the mixture has the consistency of coarse crumbs.
5) Stir the walnuts and coconut into the flour mixture.
6) Sprinkle the flour mixture over the rice mixture
and bake for twenty five minutes, or 'til the toppin' is lightly browned.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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