Pear Ginger Pop-Tarts
I must confess something: I never ate Pop-Tarts as a child. It's not something I am ashamed of; on the contrary, I'm glad my mom limited my processed/sugary food intake. It's just that for some odd reason, I wanted to make a home-made version of something I've never had before. It could be that I may have tried them once (in college?), but they were so sweet that they put me off and I felt that I wasn't missing anything. Grocery shopping during the week, I found some beautiful rhubarb in the store and wanted to make something full of spring. Originally I was going to make a strawberry-rhubarb filling. But, of course, when I woke up and went to the store (three to be exact), I only found one that had a few stalks of rhubarb, and they were such puny, soft, pale looking things that I rather felt sorry for them. So, I bought more pears to go with the one I had at home and made a filling. The dough is a basic pie dough, and the filling is something I put together ...