4 blue cheese ice cream with pears and Recipes

dried fruit compote with sambuca, this quick compote is a good choice for a winter dinner when you have little time to cook but want to make an impression. you can prepare it ahead (it s better made ahead), then spoon it over store-bought ice cream to create an original and memorable dessert. i also like it with blue cheese at the end of a meal, especially if there s a dessert wine on the table., dried peaches or nectarines, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried pears , cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried apricots, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips or quartered, golden raisins, dried cherries, water, sugar, cinnamon stick, lemon zest strips, fresh lemon juice, sambuca or other anise liqueur

dry white wine, water, granulated sugar, vanilla bean, cut and scraped, minced ginger, cardamom pods, cinnamon, peel from half a lemon, seckle pears, peeled, recipe walnut lb cake , recipe follows, recipe blue cheese ice cream , recipe follows, recipe rosemary caramel , recipe follows, unsalted butter plus 1 tbsp, at room temperature, divided, cake flour, divided, vanilla bean, cut and scraped , seeds reserved, sugar, eggs, baking powder, salt, sour cream, toasted walnuts, roughly chopped, half-and-half, salt, sugar, whole egg yolks, crumbled blue cheese, sugar, water, fresh lemon juice, chopped rosemary leaves plus 2 whole sprigs, divided, heavy cream, whole milk, divided

firm-ripe anjou pears, peeled, cored, and chopped, sweet late harvest riesling , muscat, sauternes or montbazillac, pear nectar, sugar, fresh lemon juice, heavy cream, egg yolks, danish blue , or other creamy blue cheese, rind removed and crumbled, salt, honey, toasted chopped walnuts, phyllo cookies , recipe follows