Today's lunch was a hodge-podge of everything that was about to go bad, but it ended up being quite elegant, healthy, and pretty: a sandwich on wheat bread, filled with goat cheese, a sliced pear (a very small pear of a kind I'd never seen before, half green and half red, which captivated me at Berkeley Bowl a week ago), and fresh baby spinach. It was actually delicious! And afterward, I thought, "If that sandwich had been 1/4 the size and on prettier bread, it could have been served at afternoon tea!"

I'll definitely have to put sliced fresh pear on sandwiches again in the future, because the subtle taste was nice, and the texture really added something unusual and pleasant.

So sometimes cleaning out the fridge is rewarding!