Today's Dessert

The pasta and the salad bombed; the dessert was somewhat better received. The recipe:

Ingredients:
Vanilla ice-cream
A large, sweet pear
Cinnamon

Method:
Slice pear and arrange decoratively upon bowl, and scoop ice cream upon it. Grate a stick of cinnamon upon the setup and serve frosty.

Almost laughably simple but then it's usually over-elaboration that results in failed recipes. Like my salad. I was originally intending to use ciku fruit instead of pear, but they were out of season, so I had to settle for something similarly sandy in texture. Ciku might have worked better because it's sweeter and softer, and its unique honeyed flavour would be a worthy counterpoint to the gentle highlights of cinnamon and vanilla.