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[phoenixbrd]

@Mominohio  There look beautiful and tasty...what a lucky family!

[kjae]

As Mr. Rogers used to say, "Won't you be my neighbor?"

[Carmie]

Wow, that's a lot of pears.  Where I grew up, we had a massive pear tree that produced thousands of winter pears.  They were beautiful looking, but as hard as rocks.

We used to harvest them in the fall and wrap each pear in newspaper and store them in a cool, dark place.  We ate them all winter long.

i love pears, but my DH doesn't care for them at all, so I don't have them too often.

 I wish we had a pear tree in our yard, but I only have a small cherry tree that produces a massive amount of sour cherries.  I have a freezer full.

Enjoy eating those pears, they look delicious.

[DecorDiva]

@Mominohio - Please send some of your energy my way!  I've done some canning in the past, and it isn't easy.  Do you grow the pears?   What a wonderful way to eat healthy.

[DREAMON]

mominohio,

Your home is so warm, friendly, and inviting...and those pears just add to it.

[Mominohio]

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@DecorDiva wrote:

@Mominohio - Please send some of your energy my way!  I've done some canning in the past, and it isn't easy.  Do you grow the pears?   What a wonderful way to eat healthy.

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@DecorDiva

We do indeed grow the pears. We have four trees. Three are alike and those pears are better for eating, The other tree is the one I can from as they simply hold up better in the canning process (although I have canned both types).

The ones pictured in the bowl are the ones I canned but I don't know the variety!

As with all gardens and orchards, some years are better than others for yield and this year our pears (and apples) were huge, bountiful (trees sagging and dripping with fruit) and those large pieces of fruit are so much easier to work with in processing. 

I think canning is a lot of work too. The prep and the clean up alone are exhausting sometimes when doing large amounts of food. 

But very satisfying. 

I don't can as much as I used to, but this year the fruit was just so very good that I couldn't let it go to waste and not make good use of it. We don't normally get as much or as good or as large fruit as we got this year.

[DecorDiva]

@Mominohio - your canning efforts made me think of when we used to make applebutter on the stove and had to stir and stir and stir!  Now you can use a slow cooker and I bet it comes out just as good.  Maybe you should think about making pear butter.  I buy peach butter and it is delicious.