I'm not much of a breakfast eater. I generally make myself a cup of tea and then a while later I might have a piece of toast. And I only do that because all the nutritional pundits claim your metabolism will grind to a halt if you don't eat something for breakfast.
Since we had a houseguest this weekend I wanted to have something on hand so that when we got up in the morning I could wave my hand in the general direction of the kitchen and say "have at it."
I figured a quick bread would be suitable. I made Nancy McDemott's pear bread as adapted by Smitten Kitchen.
Pears are tricky. They are like avocados in that you have to think ahead to when you want to use them and buy them a few days ahead of time. Otherwise they are rock hard and flavorless. I also don't know if Bartlett pears are the best baking pears. They were okay but the bread wasn't as peary tasting as I wanted it to be. It did smell heavenly while baking but it could have been zucchini bread or persimmon bread for all the pear flavor it had.
I understand that the flavors of the bread develop over a couple of days so I'm hoping that in a day or two it wil be the pear bread that I was envisioning.
Now if we only had a coffee maker I would be the perfect hostess.
I don't like it when something doesn't taste as strongly of what it should. That was a convoluted sentence - but when something says Pear Cake, I like it to taste of pears. I hope the flavor develops for you.
Had to laugh about the coffee maker. We finally bought one, and keep it in a deep, dark cabinet, only bringing it out for guests. Tea is our drink of choice, too.
Posted by: Lorrie | May 31, 2011 at 09:09 AM
Mmm. Pear bread. I would so heat that puppy up in the toast oven and schmear some butter on it. Maybe it would be more peary when heated. Love pear stuff.
Posted by: Karen | May 31, 2011 at 02:10 PM
I thought it was supremely delicious! Didn't miss the coffee one bit either.
Posted by: Nicole | June 01, 2011 at 06:27 AM
My sister isn't a coffee drinker. When I'm visiting she has a handy coffee maker that brews into individual 'mugs.' Not sure of the brand but I've seen them in stores. I just read about you getting "more than a fair share of cooking genes" regarding the pear coffeecake!!! ...must have been pretty tasty, after all!!
Posted by: Jan | June 01, 2011 at 06:29 AM