Blue Cheese & Pear Tart

Anyone who likes pears with blue cheese will love this worldly, surprising tart with its smooth, mousselike cheese filling and a topping of sliced, wine-poached pears. The recipe was passed on to me by María Jesús Gil de Antuñano, one of Spain’s premiere food writers and recipe developers, who writes a weekly recipe column in El País, the country’s most widely read newspaper. While Cabrales would seem like the authentic choice of cheese, Roquefort is equally, if not more, popular in