Escalloped Fruit and Ice Cream
Recipe courtesy Rachael Ray
Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter
2 McIntosh apples, peeled, quartered, cored, and thinly sliced
1 ripe Anjou or Bosc pear, peeled, quartered, and thinly sliced
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, a few pinches or freshly grated
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup (a handful) brown sugar
1 pint vanilla ice cream
8 wafer stick cookies, vanilla wafers, or ginger snaps
Directions
Heat a nonstick skillet over moderate heat. Add butter and sliced fruit
and saute for 5 minutes until the slices of fruit are tender. Season fruit with nutmeg and cinnamon
as it sautes. Sprinkle in brown sugar and cook 2 or 3 minutes longer to coat fruit.
Spoon the warm fruit over vanilla ice cream and garnish with a couple of cookies or wafer sticks.