Roasted Apple & Pear Sauce

No one gets very excited when you say "apple sauce"--well no one except, maybe, people who just had their wisdom teeth out--but throw the word "pear" in there and the word "roasted" and you start to whet people's appetites. My appetite was certainly whet when I saw this recipe in The Barefoot Contessa's newest book, "How Easy Is That?" (When my friends Patty and Lauren saw the book title, they burst out laughing, because they recognized it as one of Ina's favorite things to say.) To make the sauce, all you need is what you see above in my attempt at a still life, plus some brown sugar and a little butter.

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