Recently we took an amazing culinary adventure in our house. We didn’t have to travel to Asia or South America; we just headed over to our local grocery store and picked up a few different types of pears.

We grabbed an Asian pear, an apple pear, and a few other types that I honestly don’t remember—but that’s probably because I didn’t care for them very much! The Asian pear was the best. It was bursting with juicy flavor; in fact, it was so juicy it was almost like drinking a glass of juice while we ate them.

The apple pear was too apple-y for me. It’s texture just wasn’t pear-ish enough, and it wasn’t all that juicy at all. Of course, we did let them sit on the counter for a while before we cut them up, so they might have been too ripe, or spoiled, or otherwise ruined. Even so, all the better reason to buy them again and try it out while they’re fresh!

What was really special about this, besides the fact that we were finding new healthy snacks to try, was that we were spending time together as a family doing something new for all of us. We spend a lot of time introducing our daughter to new things, so when we all have the opportunity to do something new together, it’s even more special.

The next time we try out some new foods, I think we might go for different types of apples. We’ve had granny smiths, golden delicious, and red apples—but there are many more out there for us to explore in our culinary adventures!