{"id":489,"date":"2020-07-18T16:37:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=489"},"modified":"2020-07-18T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:37:59","slug":"love-is-the-language-spoken-here-nothing-says-i-love-you-like-taking-the-time-to-prepare-a-beautiful-tasty-meal-or-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/18\/love-is-the-language-spoken-here-nothing-says-i-love-you-like-taking-the-time-to-prepare-a-beautiful-tasty-meal-or-dessert\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is the language spoken here&#8230;.nothing says I Love you like taking the time to prepare a beautiful\/tasty meal or dessert."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Pears in puff pastry<\/em><\/strong> by Barbara Helvey Hughes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-18-2020-puff-pastry-pears-and-almond-schmear-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-18-2020-puff-pastry-pears-and-almond-schmear-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-18-2020-puff-pastry-pears-and-almond-schmear-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-18-2020-puff-pastry-pears-and-almond-schmear-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-18-2020-puff-pastry-pears-and-almond-schmear-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-18-2020-puff-pastry-pears-and-almond-schmear.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><br>6-8 fresh pears (I like a mix of different kinds<br>for added texture, juiciness and flavour) DO NOT<br>PAR COOK<br>\u00a0<br>3 tbsp organic sugar or honey<br>Cardamom \u2013 YUM!!!<br>Apricot etc preserves<br>One egg \u2013 add a touch of water and beat<br>like you\u2019re scrambling an egg<br>\u00a0<br>Roll out TWO puff pastry sheets and place one as<br>As bottom in a 9X9 greased pan<br>\u00a0<br>spread almond paste and place random dollops of apricot,<br>apricot &amp; pear or apricot and ginger preserves around the top of the<br>apricot filling\u2026. Mix pears, sugar and cardamom and place in<br>the puff pastry lined pan and place the second puff pastry<br>it on top. You can add decorations or simply pierce the top shell.<br>Brush egg mixture all over the top<br>\u00a0<br>Bake 385 for 25 minutes then bake 5-10 additional minutes<br>At 425. You\u2019ll know when it\u2019s done \u2013 crust will be golden brown.<br>Make sure the center of the crust is also brown!<br>\u00a0<br>Have fun!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we take the time to get healthy ingredients, prepare everything and present it to others, we demonstrate great Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}