This is a partnered guest post.
When it comes to inviting their love interest to have dinner at their place, many women face two major options: order food from a restaurant, or cook by themselves. Of course, ordering pizza or Chinese food hardly qualifies for a romantic dinner, but luckily we have online food delivery platforms, such as FoodyDirect, which allows us to have anything from any restaurant we like, starting with the most exquisite exotic dishes to make an impression, to choosing the most classical American barbeque ribs for a casual, delicious date. Other women, however, love to display their talents in the kitchen and to impress their dates with their skills, so today we will cook together a rather easy, surprising and delicate Italian recipe. A fair warning, though, ladies, you should know before if the gentleman is the KFC bucket type of guy or he’s into special foods, because this recipe is for enticing tastes rather than for feeding the entire football team. So let’s proceed then…
Pears With Gorgonzola Piccante
The four portion recipe has a low level of difficulty and takes about an hour to have it done.
What you need
4 large Williams pears
4 large slices of bacon
150 grams of Gorgonzola Piccante cheese
100 grams of sliced black (not so salty) black olives
2 – 3 large Champignon mushrooms, preferably fresh, but canned are good also (one can is enough)
1 table spoon of butter
1 large glass of white wine
½ glass of water
½ spoon of oregano
What you do
Make sure the bacon slices are not too fatty and they are long enough to fully wrap and cover each pear in one bacon slice. But before that, peel each fruit carefully and leave the stem attached to them. Cut the pears horizontally at a 1/4 distance from the stem, making thus each fruit a round top. With a small spoon or a knife, carefully clean the seeds inside each pear, and maybe take out some of the pulp too, in order to make room for the filling. When cutting the round top, make sure you keep the stem intact.
Take a small pot and boil together the wine and water and carefully add the pairs and the round tops into the pot. Boil for 10 minutes at a moderate intensity, as you don’t want to make fruit jelly. They should be soft but not over boiled so take them out without breaking thew em and leave them to dry for a few minutes.
If you have fresh mushrooms, clean them, cut them in small pieces and quick fry them for a special taste and flavor. If they are canned, clean them and leave them to dry too.
While the fruits regain their composure, prepare the filling: gently mix in a bowl the mushrooms (they have to be liquid free no matter how you have them or cooked them), the sliced olives and the Gorgonzola Piccante cheese until you get a smooth cream.
Fill the dried pears with the composition, put the round tops on each pear and wrap them with the bacon slices. If you feel the entire edifice isn’t stable enough, help the bacon stay around the fruit with some well placed tooth picks. Cover the pear stems with some aluminum foil so they don’t get damaged from the heat.
Some people prefer to pre-heat the oven to make sure the food is perfectly cooked. In this case it is not mandatory, but you can warm up things inside a few minutes before, just don’t exaggerate with the temperature, it’s not roast you’re cooking. So butter up a heat resistant oven tray, carefully place the pears inside and bake for 10 minutes or until the bacon gets that delicious color.
Before serving (and it’s recommended to serve them warm), take the picks and the aluminum foil out. You can have them with a glass of white wine, and because they are sweet, salty and spicy altogether, you can skip dessert and enjoy your romantic date!
I am not a big pear eater. 🙁
My MIL makes this awesome pear and nut dessert! They are so versatile!
I bet this is amazing!!
I can’t wrap my mind around fruit, bacon and cheese (oh, AND mushrooms). 🙂
YUM, sounds amazing.
It sounds interesting. i think I need to see the finished product, lol.
Wow, that sounds like heaven!
Yum, it does sound romantic
I have to admit the Piccante has thrown me and I can’t get over mixing spicy with sweet, salty and cheese. But I never back away from trying new foods.
Oh wow, never heard of this, but I do love pears!
Sounds good with sweet pear and bacon.
Such an interesting sweet & savory combo.
This sounds amazing. The older I get, the more I am appreciating more savory desserts, and this with the cheese and bacon sounds perfect and elegant.
Pears on anything sound good to me!
What an interesting dish! My mom used to make Pears in Wine Sauce for a dessert when they had guests back in the day – this reminded me of that!
Do you have a picture of how it finally looks? interesting!!
pears and cheese, yum!
It seems like bacon pairs with anything anymore. Love pairs too, this recipe is really unique!
We actually make a lot of these dishes as my fiance’ is part Italian.
who would of thought I haven’t ever heard of a recipe like thsi for an Italian dish before
Sounds interesting! I’d be very interested to know what it looks like.
I’m not a gorgonzola fan, but those pears look delicious!
I haven’t heard of this before. It sounds great and we love pears. So why not give it a shot. thanks!
I love pears and this sounds delicious!
Sounds delicious, I love the idea of pairing fruit with bacon
That sounds amazing!
Well bacon goes with anything! 🙂 I’m a little leery of the cheese, but my hubby loves pears (and cheese), so I would definitely give this a try.
That sounds like an interesting recipe.
MM this sounds delish. I love pears so I will definitely have to try this soon!
I’ll have to try this!