Girl food vs. Guy food--Poached pear with Port , ginger and anise Synrup

XGs: How to cook green pea?

Gaogao: Stir fried with tomato and eggs, or ground meat, OR just Bacon,

XGs: How to cook korean rice cake?

Gaogao: Use korean chili paste, saute Bacon first to add more flavor

XGs: It looks like you like bacon a lot

Gaogao: > <

It's often to hear a guy to  claim 'I Love Bacon!' , but it is a little hilarious for a girl or say lady to do that. But woman have the right to love bacon too, our labels are not constrained to 'salad', 'seafood', 'fruit' and 'yogurt', and that doesn't hurt the fact we are still elegant and graceful.

OK, fair enough, Gaogao admits she LOVES Bacon.

But today's food is completely a lady food, a beautiful, wonderful poached pear with ginger and anise syrup.

Basically, poached pear is : a kind of wine, lemon juice, sugar, pear, but pear goes well with ginger and nutmeg, and if want to go Asian, anise and cadamom are alsogood complements.

Poach pear first in the port with all the other ingredients, it takes about 20-40min.

After pear is done, take it out and boil the port to let it reduce to a synrup.

And if you want to pear to be colored well, you can also steep it overnight and make syrup before serving.

It can be served with ice cream or yogurt, I also added rainse and pecan. Pretty girl,right?

I though port would give my pear a stunning red color, but it didn't. Maybe I also added apple cider reduction which is brown. I read some tips about using beet can bring in the vivid red color and won't add other flavors, I will try that and use RED wine.

PS: of course, no one will judge if  a guy like it :)