ice cream is not for breakfast

Pears, pears, pears and more pears

January

My husband ordered a case of pears for his parents this holiday season via computer. I looked over his shoulder when I walked by the machine at the time and noticed that he had mis-spelled our email address.

In order to correct the address, he backspaced to the order page, attempted to correct the address, and then went through with payment.

Surprise! When he arrived in Ohio, his parents showed him the results of his labors: four cases of pears.

It seems the original order was a two-for-one, and his moving back and forth within the site meant he put in his order twice. And when he came home after his trip out to middle America, he returned with a case of pears just about a day shy of being really, really ripe.

Now, pears are fine in their way. I don’t happen to be a fan and neither are two of our three children, but my husband likes pears and eats one a week, generally. Our oldest occasionally eats a pear, too.

But what do you do with an entire case of them? The best we can come up with is some sort of pear brown betty, but if someone has a better idea for something we can do with a case of pears pretty near the end of their eat-ability, you’ll have my undying gratitude.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 5:07 pm by Randi Weiner.
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2 Responses to “Pears, pears, pears and more pears”

Meredith January 5th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Once I saw and episode of Good Eats (Food Network) where Alton Brown made a rustic tart using apples. He sliced them super thin, arranged them in a circle on some phyllo dough (or puff pastry, I can’t remember; either way, it’ll be good), sprinkled them with some sugar and baked in the oven. Pears sound like they could be substituted in this recipe pretty easily. If you want to get “Martha” about it, scrape some vanilla bean seeds into the sugar you sprinkle on the top.

Now I’m hungry….
Marianne January 6th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Hi! Make pear butter or pearsauce (like apple sauce) and freeze it flat in zip top baggies if you don’t want to can. This goes nicely on top of ice cream or cake, or even used like apple sauce in recipes).

If you really like pears you could mash them and mix with a simple syrup and make popsicles!

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