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The Pear Wars.

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@paul challenged me to a pear war with the warrior ants and the swarm of bees in @PMT's garden. It was not a pretty sight.
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There were fallen pears all over the place being viciously attacked by HUGE crazy ants, bees that possibly had a nasty sting and quite horrendous-looking fat blackish worms that looked as if they had crept slowly out of the scarier zombie movie scene. I think I accidentally brushed my hand on one. UGH. Maybe I should consider amputating it now.
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For a while I debated kicking the bee-infested pears around to dislodge and rescue the pears but I was really worried about painful repercussions. Wisdom prevailed and I left them alone. But I did blow the ants off many a fallen fruit and got quite a haul of awesome pears.
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@matthew walked in on my grand-bug-war-for-pear-rescue halfway through and threw in some tomatoes into the mix. I know I am totally overdosing on tomatoes today but these mini ones were TOO delicious not to eat as soon as I got back! Thanks so much, @matthew!
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And now the quintessential dilemma. What does one do with 20kg of pears?
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I am thinking slow roasted red pepper/tomato-pear-basil-soup spiked with red chillies and garlic...
221 words · edited Sep 5, 2011

💬 2 comments

  1. paul ·

    I would let the green ones ripen more, or cook them in a little sugar. The yellow ones should be delicious.

    I just kept making pear sauce and canned pears last year. I have so many still in jars. It makes like 500 pears every year. I find the ones the bees like to eat are generally the tastiest ones. The little black worm things are slugs. You can just brush them off, they don't do inside. Unlike the ants and bees. Since the pears fell and my little mini hiroshima, we have had no ants in the house.

  2. metalpeter ·

    Sure anything left on the grass that the meat eating tortoise doesn't find will break down and do the yard good... That being said so many juices use either pear/apples as a base... It makes sense since they are a weaker taste and cheaper then say cranberry if not a bottle would be like $12.... So even though I don't like pears and don't get juice like how I should I'm happy that there are pears....

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