Fall

I suppose an alternate title for the blog could have been 'the oven door is ajar' or some variant of that. I have an old Wedgewood stove, and the oven door is sprung, so mostly closes, but not all the way. So my oven (a.k.a. house heater) use is highly seasonal. [Putting the oven to 500 on a cool winter night to do pizza is epic].It's windy here today, which is more spring-like, but the air is cooler, and leaves are dropping from the Sycamore trees, so I decided to fire up the oven. Baked some winter squash (2 Delicata, 1 Sunshine, 1 Kabocha), some utilitarian applebutter breakfast bread, and a whole bunch of Yali asian pears.

The Yali tree is next to Amy's plot (for the record, there are 6 trees: yali pear, nectarine, plum, fuyu persimmon, fig (black mission?), and cherimoya). I ate alot last year, they are great fresh, and I normally don't like asian pears. This year we didn't get any rain to speak of so they were smaller and the worms seemed to hit them harder, so didn't want to eat them fresh. Think I'm going to turn the roasted pears in to a pear sauce.

pears, cinammon, limoncello

purty and tasty. I ate some raw once the worms were cut out....

blurry, but I wanted some before/after action

purty

limoncello + pear liquid at the bottom