Alright so for Valentine’s Day I made lasagna (see Lasagna Battle) which I’ve practiced before. It turned out pretty nicely with ground turkey instead of ground beef. For dessert, I attempted to make vanilla poached pears (picture above).

I goggled the recipe and found one from Chow.com. The recipe called for a lot of sugar which I think would be too sweet so I tweaked it slightly and the end results surprised me. It tasted just like the vanilla poached pear preserves from Mission Hill Winery. The lemon peels added into the poaching liquid turned out like candied lemons. It was so simple to make that I think this will become one of my favourite dessert to serve at parties. The only down side is that it uses vanilla beans which can be a bit expensive (costed me about $3.50 for one).

Recipes will be posted soon! Oh and Ken did the slicing to make the pear into a fan shape *clap clap clap*