My friend Amanda came up with a great idea to have a Secret Recipe Club.
Once a month, we’re assigned a different blog, we choose a recipe, make it and blog it.
But it’s a secret!
No one knows who has who, until reveal day. How fun!
If you want, you can join the fun too.
I was assigned the blog This Mama Cooks!
She has many recipes that caught my eye. She has an egg-less chocolate cake recipe that I actually made, but I didn’t get any pictures. It was terrific, but I slightly under baked it (I’m famous for under-baking things). It had a tang to it and I thought it tasted like the Wacky Cake we make at our school.
Since I didn’t get any pictures of the cake (how stupid was that?), I also made her Caramelized Pear and Onion Flatbread.
The original recipe comes from Pat Crocker’s The Yogurt Bible. But I changed it up. I used cream cheese instead of yogurt cheese, blue cheese instead of feta cheese, and maple syrup instead of Stevia. Oh yeah, and I forgot the garlic.
It’s no secret around here that I love blue cheese and pears together. You may remember the crostini I made, or the tart? I love these flavors and this flatbread was delicious! It is suppose to be an appetizer for 6-8 but we had it for a light lunch. So ours is a little more stellar then what I would serve as an appetizer.
| Flat Bread with Blue Cheese, Pear and Onion |
- 2 tablespoons olive oil (I used avocado oil)
- 2 onions, thinly sliced (I used one red, one white)
- 2 pear, thinly sliced (I diced mine)
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced (I forgot the garlic)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar I used a tangerine flavored Balsamic)
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1 large naan or flatbread
- Preheat broiler (475°F)
- In a skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat.
- Add red onions and pear and bring to a light simmer, stirring constantly.
- Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes or until onions are soft.
- Add garlic, maple syrup and vinegar and cook, stirring occasionally, for 3 to 5 minutes. Garlic should be soft and the liquid should have evaporated, leaving a soft and sticky (caramelized) mixture.
- Let cool slightly.
- Meanwhile, in a bowl, combine cream cheese, blue cheese and thyme.
- Spread cheese mixture evenly over flatbread and place on baking sheet.
- Spread onion mixture over cheese mixture and place under broiler for 30 seconds or until bread warms through.
- Transfer to a cutting board and cut.
- Enjoy
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I loved how you changed around “my” recipe. Blue cheese, pears and caramelized onion? Mmmmmm!
My blog is gone adn I am working a a new one…wish I could be aprt of this…I should be up and running mid May…
What a fun cooking club! These flatbreads look delicious.
This is such a fun idea! I think I’m going to join up when things calm down a little for me this summer. Yay!
And also, this flatbread? So yummy looking. I’m such a sucker for anything involving caramelized onions!
Love the idea of turning a great appetizer in to a lunch. It sounds fabulous.
This sounds really good! I love flatbreads, cheese, and caramelized onions. The only time I’ve had pear on a pizza was at California Pizza Kitchen- their Gorgonzola Pear Pizza is out of this world. If you haven’t tried it, you should, I bet you’d love it!
Btw, thanks for stopping by my blog and entering the giveaway! The winner will be announced tomorrow.
These are totally making me drool, I love the rich strong flavours.
*kisses* HH
Looks gourmet enough for company and decedent enough for eating at home alone.
yum!
Those flatbreads look so flavorful. What a way to impress people’s tastebuds.
This looks so delicous! I love blue cheese!