Pear Popping

I've made no secret of my "breakfasting" menu here-fromage, fruit and walnuts every morning. It's usually a slice of camembert (Rustique of course), a slice of brie, apples or pears (in various colors) and my very own walnuts! Remembering my apple corer/slicer from the good old days in New Orleans, I began searching around for something that I could use here. The cores are the problems with the apples and the pears, not the slicing.

I found this protective tube from my candy thermometer and tried it out on the apples. It worked pretty well, but wasn't easy...I had to dig the stuff out of the tube and it was just too much trouble. I expected the pears to be just as bad or worse. Imagine my excitement when the pear core popped out of the tube and went sailing off into unknown parts of the Chatette. I'm a big kid. I giggle and laugh every time. You should hear it! It reminds me of those old pop guns my brothers used to have when we were kids. I've now got a regular tool kit for my morning petit dejeuner...pear popping candy thermometer protecter, hammer to walnuts, and Babar spoon to stir coffee and scoop up all the ooey gooey cheese. I never thought that breakfast could be this fun. Wishing you lots of fun breakfast discoveries of your own!