Rotting Pears~

So about a month? three weeks? ago i bought a box of little cute snack sized pears. By a box, i don't mean boxes that may or may not be offered in grocery stores (do they sell pears by the box in grocery stores? I'm so out of touch with produce actually sold in stores because now that i'm a super apple/pear snob at this job of mine.... hehehee) but the box that i speak of is a wholesale sized box of pears. yeah. 158 pears nicely wrapped and packed in a pretty little case ready to be added to 48 other little cases stacked together on a perfect little pallet ready to be shipped on a semi truck with 19 other pallets full of the same cute little pears.

yup. i have 158 of these suckers to eat however i can. When they were less than ripe they were perfect for the juicing- oh my. delicious! a little tangy and a bit too tart with granny apples but a nice balance of acidity with beets and celery. yumm.

fast forward three weeks later. They're ripe now. Oh how they're ripe. they're almost to the mushy point. So juicy, so many pears, so little- no- NO time!!! i'm handing these babies to my little dog like it's christmas every day. the greedy sucker thinks the treats will end so he keeps hiding them and then i have to find them and toss them before they rot!! argggghh!!!

My mom and i eat like 7 pears a day.

ok, that's a lie. my MOM eats 7 a day. i look at 7 and guiltily don't eat any.  Why?

I'm not all that partial to pears.

True story.

So why did i buy a case of these bastards?

Meh- i was getting super hyped about the juicing :) and they're super cute. fits right into the palm of my teeny little hand teeheheheee..

After giving about 25 of them to a friend, and another 25 to another friend, and consuming about 40 in the last week and tossing a few of the bruised and rotted ones, we're down to about 40. My remedy is to just smoothie and salad the CRAP out of these guys..

Just found a recipe for an oats and pear smoothie. sounds DELICIOUS.

ingredients
ripe pears
milk
6 oz yogurt
1/4 cup oats
5-7 ice cubes
ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
pinch of salt

directions
blend all the shiz together until smooth.

I'm thinking breakfast tomorrow instead of my juice. in fact, i'm thinking breakfast every day until i get rid of these damn pears.  I'll be using raw milk and probably subbing ice cubes for frozen bananas and leaving out the yogurt for a little bit more milk.

For dinner? That's right!! pear mixed with some pear, garnished with slivered pears and topped with a healthy dose of pear!! wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

No dinner is more like kale salad with pear, cranberries, Gorgonzola and some white wine vinaigrette and a side of roasted brussel sprouts and pears. Chicken will have to be involved as my brother is going to be involved :) I'll work it out... lots of pears!!


I'm thinking maybe a pear and Gorgonzola pizza for tomorrow night. prep the pizza dough tonight as there is no gym with this month long flu. blech. so over it already.