If baking is your thing, the holidays are all about the dessert. But for the rest of us, dessert is sometimes the unfortunate victim of the 24-hour clock. There is just never enough time to get it all ...

Tea makes a lovely poaching liquid for fresh or dried fruit. It provides a potpourri of flavor options, including the warm, aromatic spiciness of chai, the heady floral essence of jasmine and the ...

Soft pears are a winter delight — if you can catch them at the right moment. Too hard, they are inedible. Too soft, they are mealy enough to turn a person away from pears forever. That was me for many ...

With pears at their peak in autumn, now is the time to indulge in this sweet, healthy treat. Start by not worrying much about perfectly ripe pears. Because pears that ripen on the tree develop a ...

Delight in the exquisite simplicity of Martha Stewart's Easy Poached Pears! Join us in the kitchen for a step-by-step tutorial on crafting this elegant dessert. Martha's expertise transforms poaching ...

Tea makes a lovely poaching liquid for fresh or dried fruit. It provides a potpourri of flavor options, including the warm, aromatic spiciness of chai, the heady floral essence of jasmine and the ...

I'm a sucker for desserts that feel elegant without requiring a ton of fancy cooking tricks. It may sound like a tall task, but a dessert like wine poached pears proves that it's possible. Fresh pears ...

Looking for an easy but fancy dessert? Try Candice Kumai's poached pears in red wine, which just involves a few seasonal ingredients (and a bottle of red). Well+Good is not the kind of wellness ...

1. In a skillet or saucepan that will hold the pears in a single layer, combine 1 cup of water, the honey and cloves or star anise. Bring to a gentle simmer and stir to dissolve the honey. Place the ...

Rose, jasmine, honeysuckle, lavender -- are pure romance. And lemon verbena, that wonderfully aromatic herb with slender green leaves, may be the most romantic of them all. Its captivating perfume is ...

There is no in-between with pears. Underripe and the late-fall fruit is hard, astringent and tasteless; overripe and it's gritty and bland. At peak, a good pear is one of the finest fruits, perfumed, ...