Food Club!

[cheapski]

Peekaboo, can you confirm? My sister said tonight, "Pomegranate is the new bacon!" I am seeing pomegranate everywhere.

[ride395]

there's a pomegranate tree growing im my mom's backyard like a weed ... has been for years. what a pain the ***! (my own stars, ty) the tree and trying to use/eat the fruit.

pomegranate jelly, though ... drown me in it. (with a little buttery white bread, please)

[cheapski]

I find pomegranate annoying to eat. All those little seed thingies and then it stains.

[2NAKLLR]

This thread has frayed. I went outside the norm and delved into the alchemy of candy.
First I made some caramel, and made some turtle things. It was very good, but the caramel could have cooked another minute or so. No pix. Next I tried some toffee. Turned out much better than the caramel. I think I will buy a candy thermo to be more precise. It's dicey timing w/o it.
phone pic of choc/pecan covered butter toffee; uncracked and cooling.

[Sierra Lady]

Mmmmm...pomegranate Mike's Hard Lemonade. I tried it in early June at my niece's graduation party and it was very tasty!

Used to love eating the messy devils when I was a kid. My older brother and I would take ours into the alley behind our apartment building, eat them there and spit out seeds into the weeds back there. When we'd come inside, mom would have to treat the stains on our shirts and wash them!!

[cheapski]

I went outside the norm and delved into the alchemy of candy.
First I made some caramel, and made some turtle things. It was very good...Next I tried some toffee. Turned out much better than the caramel.

Note to Snowdreamer: remember to personally invite this guy to the next Camparoo.

All those years of tossing avocado pits into the canyon have not resulted in any avocado trees. But I'm sure some quail got quite a surprise.

[Sierra Lady]

^^ The problem could be solved if either one of you just married the guy!

[cheapski]

No, from what I've seen of my friends, men mysteriously forget how to cook and clean and do laundry once married. Marriage seems to be an amnesiac state for them.

[2NAKLLR]

No, from what I've seen of my friends, women mysteriously forget how to cook and clean and do laundry once married. Marriage seems to be an amnesiac state for them.

[Sierra Lady]

^ Touche!

[cheapski]

Hey I can forget all that without the benefit of wedlock.

But seriously, how many times have you watched the wife carefully making frozen meals in serving size for their spouse if they go away for a weekend? Like the guy cant figure out how to find food at a grocery store? How did he eat before he got married?

[Photoho]

Some women can't even balance a check book or read a map. But suddenly turn into legal experts ready to take the Bar when you mention divorce.

[cheapski]

But marriage didnt make them suddenly forget. They were always like that! I think a domestic arts course in HS should be required for basic skills living, like simple household finances, cooking some simple dishes and how to do laundry. Modern survival skills.

One of my friends used to tell me, "This is how I gather food. Give me the phone."

[2NAKLLR]

But seriously, how many times have you watched the wife carefully making frozen meals in serving size for their spouse if they go away for a weekend? Like the guy cant figure out how to find food at a grocery store? How did he eat before he got married?

Don't you remember those Carl's Jr. adds? That's their schtick.

Back on pomegranates...
I've never bought one. I've eaten a few, but only one or two from a store. The juice is really healthy, I hear, and I have gotten a lot of people f'd up on Pom martinis.

For the old school OC sk8 crowd:
There was the remains of a long-since burned down house in Trabuco Canyon, up above the general store, adjacent to O'neil Park. Probably still there, but I haven't been there in decades. All that was left was some concrete slab/deck work, and a pool with a pomegranate tree growing over the deep end of the pool. It was a really deep, steep pool and took a lot of skill to sk8 well. But if you were really good you could carve up [I'd have to be regular, front-side] and grab a pomegranate from the overhanging tree. It was a sketch move; there was a lot of vert and tight tranny. Those were really rewarding poms. Mostly we just raided the tree for a little sugar rush for sk8n the bowl.

[Peek A Boo]

Pom's are high up on my current fav list. I make Pom-a-tinis, Pom-a-ritas. Made a pom reduction sauce for lamb, a pom syrup. If you get a fresh one you need to put it in a big bowl of water and cut it there and pop out the seeds. Keeps the staining to a minimum. This weekend I had a ravioli stuffed with pumpkin in a pom sauce that was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!!!!!!

For a pom juice I like Langers "All Pomegranate" 100% pom juice. I don't like those sissy blend drinks that are mellowed with apple juice. It's kind of $$ but worth it and not as much $$ as "Pom" the one in the fancy bottle. That's good too but just too much $$ for my $$.
Now I gotta go do laundry, make dinner, change the oil in my truck, fix that squeaky hinge and work on that writ for court tomorrow.