Perhaps a Persimmon

Good afternoon! 

I hope your morning has gone well.  Mine was spent at Barnes and Noble, doing work 😦

Bleh.  Luckily though, I got a TON of work done on my online classes, so now I have all afternoon free.  I’m getting a big load of papers from my composition students tomorrow, so I want to have as much work done as possible before that grading storm rolls in.  The house is a wreck, so I’m about to do a major cleaning spree.  I need to take the dogs on a W-A-L-K, but it’s really gross outside (complete 180 from yesterday), so it probably won’t be a long one. 

I spent longer than anticipated at B&N, and by the time I got home, I was starving!!  I whipped up a quick lunch: tortilla wrap with sprouts, Sabra hummus, Follow Your Heart mozzarella, and cherry tomatoes.  On the side I had the rest of the pear from last night’s salad, as well as…a persimmon!  I saw these on Kath’s blog, and when we went home to Shreveport and visited the outdoor arboretum at Centenary, my mom mentioned that she had eaten a persimmon from one of the trees a few weeks earlier.  I’ve been wanting to give them a try ever since, so I picked up a few at the grocery store on Sunday night. 

Here’s my lunch:

The persimmon:

My take on the persimmon?  I liked it!  I think Kath described it as a cross between mango and papaya (which I really do not like), and that sounds about right.  It had a pretty mellow flavor, and the skin was tougher than I thought it would be.  I certainly wouldn’t eat one of these every day, but it was a nice change from the apple/pear rotation I usually find myself in at lunch.  Plus, Ryan kept calling them parsnips, which I found very funny.  So that made it all worth it.

After lunch, I still felt empty/hungry, probably because I was SO hungry beforehand.  So I wrapped up the meal with this:

Sorry for the blurriness– I just couldn’t get this one right! 

This bar was pretty good!  This was the first time I’d seen it in the stores.  It’s basically a chewy Kashi bar topped with a “pumpkin pie” topping and walnuts.  The topping wasn’t too sweet, and had  nice nutmeg-y flavor.  Yum!

Hope your afternoon goes well.  See you at dinner!