Pear Bread with a Pomegranate Glaze

One day I got bored and I realized I had so many pears that were on the verge of going bad. I decided to take care of that and re-do one of my other recipes, but with a new ingredient. And then I noticed in the fridge I had POM juice... Voila!

*The best part about having the pear in it, it adds a nice crunch!

Pear Bread with a Pomegranate Glaze

3 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
4 shredded bosc pears
1 2/3 cups sugar
2/3 cup canola oil
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs

1/2 c powdered sugar

1 1/2 tablespoons POM juice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (or 375 degrees for high altitude). Grease a (9x5in) loaf pan or 2 (8x4in) loaf pans and sprinkle with flour.
Mix flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and baking powder in a large bowl. In another bowl, mix apple, sugar, oil, vanilla, and eggs. Form a bowl like dent in the center of the flour mixture. Pour in the apple mixture and mix until fully blended.
Pour into loaf pan or divide evenly into both loaf pans. Place loaf pan on a cookie sheet in case of spills. Bake 8-inch loaves 50 to 60 minutes, 9-inch loaf 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on cooling rack 10 minutes.
Loosen sides of loaves from pans; remove from pans and place top side up on cooling rack.

Combine powdered sugar and juice, stirring with a whisk; drizzle over warm bread. Cool completely on wire rack.

On its way...

I really need to update this on a regular basis! So here are some things to expect this week. Like I said here, I am obsessed with cranberries this season, so be prepared!

Pear bread with a Pomegranite glaze
Pumpkin-Cranberry bread
Coco Cranberry-Apple muffins
Coconut Crusted Shrimp with a Peanut Butter Curry sauce
Pumpkin Brownies
Olive Oil-Lime salad dressing
Herbed Foccacia Bread
Orange Poppy Seed Cupcakes

I promise all of this will be posted before Thanksgiving!!!!!!!

Pear Puff Pastries

Now, all of you know I just LOVE this recipe! It is one of my favorites! I was watching the Food Network (naturally) on the airplane flying home for Christmas and saw this episode! It was the episode The Big Easy on the show Cooking for Real. The host is Sunny Anderson. She's kinda funny, but what I really like about her is that she is easy to follow. Her recipes are simple (or at least from what I've seen) and that makes cooking so much easier when you don't have to use so many ingredients. Also, it makes it easier because she incorporates ingredients most people already have. The original recipe calls for cheddar to shredded on top of the finished pastry, but that didn't sound so appetizing to me.

Ingredients
1/4 cup raw sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 sheet puff pastry, thawed
1/2 stick butter, melted
2 (15 1/4-ounce) cans pear halves, keeping stem end attached, cut into 1/4-inch thick slices
Caramel

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In a small bowl, mix sugar and cinnamon together. Lay puff pastry sheet on a work surface brush with melted butter and sprinkle with half the cinnamon sugar. Cut into 6 even pieces. Fan the pear slices over the puff pastry, using 1/2 a pear for each puff pastry square. Sprinkle tops of pear tarts with remaining cinnamon sugar mixture. Bake for 30 minutes, until puff pastry is golden.
Remove from tart from oven, , drizzle with caramel.