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Winter Dessert
Pears in Cream
Easy Cranberry Pie
Biscotti
Roasted Marone Chestnuts
     in Vino Rosso

Sweet Potatoes and Apples
Zabaglione
Pannetone
Castagnaccio
Sonoma Roasted Fruit
Panna Cotta
Saint Moritz Rice Cream
Candied Citrus Peels
Peach Leaf Custard
Torta D'Angeli
Orange Cake
Amaretti
Pepper Cookies Trieste
Cherry Fritters
Orange or Grapefruit Fritters
Apricotina
Torta Arancia
Jea's Sour Cream Walnuts
Banana Cream & Co
Pears with Banana Cream
Quick Sonoma Pie
Fruit Filling
Cannoli Cream
Italian Meringue Frosting
Peaches Noir

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2005 Sauvignon Blanc
2005 Glissando


Pears with Banana Cream
The most elegant room in Petaluma belonged to Ramona King and we never tired of admiring it. Ramona was an accomplished hostess who offered her guests considerable variety in every menu she selected. She often served a fruit in some special way as a dessert.

1 pear per person with stem on
1/4 cup lemon jiuce
1/2 cup sugar
piece of vanilla bean
pear liqueur (optional)
Banana Cream
A more elegant way to serve the banana cream is this:
  • Carefully hollow out openings along the core of pears on the bottom with an apple corer.
  • Make the openings around an inch or so wide but stop about an inch from the stem.
  • Cut flat across bottom so each pear can stand up.
  • Keep stems on.
  • Put pears in a pot of water to cover with about 1/4 cup lemon juice, 1/2 cup of sugar and piece of vanilla bean.
  • Poach gently until pears are just cooked.
  • Remove from pot to cool on paper towel.
  • Reduce poaching liquid to a syrup, remove vanilla bean and add a little pear liqueur if you have it (use your imagination to substitute.)
  • Assemble by putting a circle of banana cream on the bottom of a plate.
  • Fill a pear with banana cream and stand on plate.
  • Drizzle with syrup and garnish.

    Enjoy with our 2005 Glissando.
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