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December 15, 2008
An Ecstatic Pear
MR has this habit which is either cute or annoying depending on a) whether or not you're in love with him b) how much of a hurry you're in of telling a very long story that leads up to a rather underwhelming punch line. I think it's cute but I a) am madly in love with him b) have learned to tell him to save it for later if I'm rushing to get out the door.
Well, today, I pulled an MR. I was trying to relate the story of how I've come to decide that I will include one piece of fruit per day into my diet, with four days of citrus per week, one of those grapefruit, the others tangerines or oranges, and the other three days pears, apples, banana, or kiwi or berries. Or whatever.
So I started to tell this story about how I happened to eat a pear today, but he got confused because I had been just before telling a story of how something really funny happened at work. MR didn't realize I had shifted gears and was talking about a pear.
"So somebody at the office received a package from Harry and David," I said, and proceeded to explain that Harry and David is a company that sends baskets of yummy food like fruits, nuts, and cheeses.
He was confused. "Somebody sent David a package?"
"No, I think it was Paul who got the package?"
"Well why were they sending the package to Paul?"
"It doesn't matter why. I'm trying to tell you about the pear."
"The pear? What has this got to do with a pear?"
Classic April and MR misunderstanding.
"Okay, back a step."
I explained that the package was a package of fruit from Harry and David which has really good fruit, and I had eaten a small delicous pear on my way home to have lunch, and this had cemented my decision to make room in my quotidian diet for a piece of fruit.
So there.
Here is one of my favorite uses for pears, which I wrote about long ago but many of my readers have joined me since then:
Hazelnut Pear Dessert Pizzas!
Trader Joe's low carb tortillas
Nonfat ricotta
Pears
Hazelnuts
Hazelnut oil
Walden Farms Chocolate sauce (optional)
Top the tortillas with 2 tbsps nonfat ricotta, approx 50 g pears (diced into chunks) and put in the oven till the tortillas are slightly browned. Just extremely slightly.
Remove from heat, add 3 hazelnuts each and a half teaspoon hazelnut oil. Add chocolate sauce if desired. Serve warm.
This is a wicked awesome dessert. I think I will serve it tonight!
Posted by april at December 15, 2008 12:34 PM
Comments
Dude. According to Amazon, WF makes MAYO now. I would do a happy dance, except the stores here don't stock it.
Posted by: Ashley at December 15, 2008 2:28 PM
Ah yes. Take a few minutes and read the e-mail exchange between himself and me over this past weekend. Classic MR in a nutshell! Sigh.... I would be thrilled if a certain Tiny Goddess made that dessert for me one day soon... JD ;-)
Posted by: Judith at December 15, 2008 7:15 PM
Remind MR that the Internet is his friend and tell him to Google "Harry & David". Tee, hee! MoMR ;-)
Posted by: Judith at December 15, 2008 8:09 PM
All straight women have the same problem.
They were not raised to/ they did not have it in them/they're idiots, all the same, they don't trust themselves. They unbedingtlich (that's a german word, look it up) need a man aside. I think that's pathetically weak.
z.
Posted by: zeynep at December 16, 2008 7:33 PM
Zeynep,
I think you mean "unbedingt." ;) Also, what in the world does April's post have to do with needing a man? I read it and understood she was talking about pears and communication.
Posted by: Shveta at December 17, 2008 7:31 AM