Alton Brown’s Vanilla-Poached Pears

These (recipe here) were so delicious and easy. The really wonderful thing is that they can be prepared in advance, so they’d be wonderful for a dinner party. I served them with ice cream, because I wasn’t sure how my crew would take to them, on their own. They definitely liked them with the ice cream, but we had some of the leftovers, plain, for breakfast the next morning and they were also, quite well-received. Instead of serving the entire pear, you could also cut the pear into slices for a different presentation, with smaller portion sizes.