Baked Oatmeal Cookie Pears

Seasonal cooking seems compulsory when you live where I live and truth be told I look forward to this area’s local farmers markets the way I look forward to things l love, like Antiques Roadshow and my flowers blooming. Somehow lately Antiques Roadshow is hard to find on my television and this summer my flowers stubbornly refused to bloom effusively, so this harvest season’s abundance has been something I looked forward to even more. This summer with Ascend Center’s classes at Boscobel HG I had an opportunity to watch as their onsite apples and quinces ripened, and took many photos to paint from documenting their journey from bud to fruit. With all the upheaval and uncertainty of this year, there was something grounding in watching this harvest come to fruition weekly and I took comfort in the fact the world might be upside down, but the pears in the herb garden were still so damn pretty.

My parents came over for dinner and what I cooked was kind of hearty so I was attempting to make something on the lighter side for dessert. I had made baked pears before but the addition of oatmeal crumble made this dessert seem like an event. Unfortunately I found some especially hard pears so they needed more cooking than the recipe recommended but the aroma of the cooking wafting through my tiny space made everything worth it!

Ingredients

3 pears

0.5 cup butter, melted

1 tbsp. cinnamon sugar

1 c. Oats

1/2 c. Finely Chopped Almonds (optional- I omitted because I did not have them in my kitchen)

1/3 c. brown sugar

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

kosher salt

Plan of attack

Serving suggestion- with vanilla ice cream and caramel drizZle

Preheat the oven to 390 degrees. Scoop out the insides of the pears, and brush lightly with your melted butter. Mix your oats, brown Sugar, cinnamON, and remaining butter and fill the pear halves. Put them in the oVen and allow them To cooK until the pears are aromatic and Easily takes a knife all the way through.

Pictured- pre-baking. Serve hot and possibly with a scoop of Vanila ice cream.