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Broiled Feta with Caramelized Cinnamon Pears -- back to top

Meredith and I were invited to a "Mad Scientist Party". The idea is that you bring (preferably make) something that you've never made/had before. And, you can go a bit out there. Well, Meredith has a whole pinterest board of ideas and we went with the broiled feta.

We based it on this recipe (local link). We followed it pretty closely except we planned to double or tripple it. However, we misread the thing and only bought 3 x 8-ounce feta blocks. We had actually also bought a lite feta for us so we decided to use that so we could double it. It is actually really interesting how much you can tell the difference in the pictures, especially the ones below.

Other than that, we stayed pretty true to the recipe. And it was both really good and really easy. It was better hot but fine room temperature too. I think it would be interesting to do with more honey in place of brown sugar and apples instead of pears to do some thing for Rosh Hashanah. Maybe in the future.

Few other notes: We used red pears since they are prettier (though you couldn't tell in the end) and we served it with Trader Joes mini pita crackers. They were fine but maybe a bit dry. Also, we didn't cut the blocks of feta.

Broiled Feta with Caramelized Cinnamon Pears (from How Sweet It Is)
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Black Bean Salad with Cucumber, Feta, and Crab -- back to top

Meredith had the idea to make a black-bean salad for lunch. It is heavily based on This Kitchn recipe (local). We essentially cut the recipe in 1/3 and made some minor tweaks.

• Way more cucumber (~2 small for 1/3 the recipe)
• ~2.5 oz of lite feta
• Skip the corn
• Add lots of tomatoes
• (probably) extra cilantro
• Not sure of exact conversion of green onions, but used 2 (and no celery)
• About 1/3 lbs of leftover crab meat

It was pretty easy and made quite a bit of food and it tasted very good. Fresh flavors that went well together. We were a bit nervous about the crab but honestly, it was fine in the final result. I would consider doing this with canned tuna or something in the future. Basically, any way to add some protein.

In the future, we will also likely follow the Kitchn's note and add jalapeno. Also, Meredith pointed out that this would work really well with avocado.

[Smart] Points were also low. About 5 for the bean, 1-2 for the feta, and 0-1 for the crab.

Chilled Black Bean, Feta & Cucumber Salad (from The Kitchn)
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