Holiday baking has begun!

[LuvOrlando]

I have been making lots of omelettes but can't figure out what to do with the egg yolks, anyone have a repurposing? I thought maybe I could put them aside and use in baking but wonder if it would just make things too heavy?

Also, anyone have any experience in figuring out how to color food with natural ingredients? DD has a red food dye allergy so I picked up some beets to color the candy cane cookie red parts but not really sure how much to use, I thought there would be more out there but all I get are adds for stuff to buy that is called natural... thinking plain beets would be best.

Third, pears, I love pears but a few came in sliced so I won't eat them raw, thinking maybe in a dessert when they are cooked would be ok but not sure, I don't normally do anything interesting with pears.

 

[TwoMisfits]

Make a curd with the egg yolks...lemon is great, but any fruit flavored curd will work...

As for sliced pears, an apple pear pie is spectacular...

 

[ProfessorMPoppins]

I like to make creme Brulee with leftover egg yolks!

 

[LuvOrlando]

perfect! Thanks

 

[LuvOrlando]

Make a curd with the egg yolks...lemon is great, but any fruit flavored curd will work...

As for sliced pears, an apple pear pie is spectacular...

I preheated the oven to 415, mixed 3 peeled bruised apples and 3 peeled bruised pears in a bake pan with 4 shakes of McCormick apple pie spice, a shake of salt, about 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1/2 a fresh lemon squeezed on top and then put a few dabs of butter on top and cooked for about 35 minutes and this was one of the most amazing things I've ever had, no crust and no crumble. Never would have thought to mix pears with apples but it works. Thanks for the inspiration!

I'll try the other items ASAP

 

[LovesTimone]

You can do baked pear, like you would do bake apples... really good... I will say you will most likely need a few more pears, as they are not as big as apples..

Pears are great in a salads, with goat cheese... yummy... lots of recipes on line for something like this...

 

[LuvOrlando]

You can do baked pear, like you would do bake apples... really good... I will say you will most likely need a few more pears, as they are not as big as apples..

Pears are great in a salads, with goat cheese... yummy... lots of recipes on line for something like this...

Thanks for reminding me of baked apples, my curbside pickup has been less than delicate with fruit so I now have 2 Honeycrisp apples waiting to be made into something hot.

Never tried baked pear, do you use different spice combinations, so far pear was unexpectedly amazing in the apple/pear pie?

Love my fruit on salad especially with the Trader Joe Goat cheese rolled in other dried fruit with balsamic dressing, but I will only use something bruised on a salad. If there is any sort of breaking of the skin I'll only use it if it's heated to scalding hot.

Still thinking on the food colorings, there was a time when dough was always shaded with other foods, I just need to figure out how.

 

[DLgal]

Try beet powder. You can order it from Amazon. You can also boil cranberries or reduce down pomegranate juice for red coloring.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Try beet powder. You can order it from Amazon. You can also boil cranberries or reduce down pomegranate juice for red coloring.

Thanks! We were just talking about the cookies.