. . .all the way home, i'll be warm

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Every so often, I go to the store and buy pears – which are rock hard and unripe, as food in the store tends to be. And I put them in a bag and leave them on top of the fridge or in the cupboard to ripen, and they get perfectly ripe riight about the time I forget that I bought pears a few days ago, and then I’m left with more pears than I could reasonably eat in a single sitting, all just on the cusp of going bad

The solution, obviously, is “bake them into something.” Because everyone knows, cooking food that’s almost over-the-hill is like hitting the reset button on its expiry date. (I. . .am kidding. Mostly.)

Anyway, I made mine into a half-recipe of this pear cobbler. It is delicious – a lot like apple crisp, but a little bit sweeter because of the different fruit. But then again, the recipe also calls for maple syrup. What doesn’t become delicious when you add that?

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