Persimmon Pomegranate Arugula Salad

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INGREDIENTS

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4 Fuyu persimmons

3 cups arugula

2 tablespoons lemon juice

3 tablespoons olive oil

¼ teaspoon pepper

½ cup pomegranate seeds*

2 tablespoons pomegranate juice.

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* = 1 pomegranate will yield sufficient amount of these ingredients.

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SPECIAL UTENSILS

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mandoline (optional)

vegetable peeler (optional)

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Serves 4. Takes 15 minutes or a bit longer if you have scoop the seeds out of a pomegranate.

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PREPARATION

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Peal persimmons with peeler. Use mandoline to cut persimmons into slices ¼’ thick. Add all ingredients to large serving bowl. Toss with forks or spoons until well blended.

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TIDBITS

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1) On April 1, Farine du Ble demonstrated on her show, Talc Chef, how to make Arugula Persimmon Pomegranate Salad, or APPs for short. Viewers tried it and recommended this salad to all their friends. “If want to have this dish, check it out on APPS. Unfortunately, most human ears cannot distinguish between APPs and apps. So, most people heard “Check it out on apps.”

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2) And so they went to their apps’ store to buy Arugula Persimmon Pomegranate Salad. So many billions of people tried that they crashed the worldwide web and crashed communication everywhere. E-commerce looked ready to collapse. Decades-long depression loomed. Militaries from most countries ceased to function from lack of orders. The very few armies that didn’t rely on the internet could have conquered us all. It looked bad.

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3) Fortunately, world leaders had already decreed April 1st to be Global Nap Day. No orders for Arugula Persimmon Pomegranate Salad could have been shipped that day. Thus, the Great Interest crash couldn’t have affected commerce at all. Soldiers napped all over the Earth. So, no wars of conquest took place. Everything was okay. Still, it had been quite the close call. An emergency session of the United Nations renamed this dish to be Persimmon Pomegranate Arugula Salad, or PPAS. The threat to the internet vanished. Serenity returned to the world. Something to chew on.

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.