I just bought seven of the freshest, nicest pomegranates that I have ever seen. I juiced the first two with my food mill and then the food mill broke. I am now enjoying a pomegranate martini and trying to decide how much to spend on my next food mill.
Anyone have any interesting pomegranate tales or recipes?
I found this thread very useful.
Yeah. Thanks a bunch. Way to encourage dialog.
I remember that thread. I participated in it, and I was hoping for round two. I was hoping that someone else would be as pleased as I am that fresh pomegranates are back and would be ready to share stories are recipes.
I was just trying to be helpful. There’s no need for snark.
As you can see, I am a charter member like yourself and can search just as you can. What you did was nearly the same as offering the first result of a google search in IMHO. It was a thread killing post and you yourself contributed nothing about pomegranates, not one story nor opinion nor recipe.
I challenge you to either go buy a pomegranate and experience its seedy goodness and report on it, or explain your aversion to doing so. You said the thread helped you, explain how, please, don’t just come in and kill the thread without mercy.
I bought a pomegranate last week to give to my daughter (I’d given her one a couple of years ago, but she had forgotten about it). She thought it was extremely weird, but she loved it, so much that she bought another one this week, and has declared it her favorite fruit.
I have found the POM brand juice to be quite good (though not as good as fresh, of course).
I’ll look around, right now we’ve got a couple of Greek cookbooks and I have a “Mediterrainian” (SP) one that may have something.
They are, indeed, my favorite fruit!
We love that Pomegranite and Feta Salad recipe from the previous thread!! It’s yummy!
You know, with Thanksgiving coming up, I’m wondering if they will help brighten up the cranberry relish – hmmm. . .
Once I learned how to harvest the pips quickly and cleanly, I started adding them to EVERYTHING I could think of: tossed on a salad, added to rice, stuffing and couscous (ooh…the couscous was divine!), and, yes, in with the cranberry relish.
I love eating 'em by the handful too, of course.
This year I want to try making pomegranate sorbet.
I’m fairly sure that non-charter members can’t search so I pulled up something for them. There are other people besides you reading this thread.
Your response was just unecessarily nasty.
I liked the recipes in the previous thread including the Pomegranate and Feta salad Qadgop pulled up. I found it worked better with imported rather than domestic feta.
I also like pomegranate juice but I think it needs something to soften the somewhat tart taste so I always mix it with chilled seltzer. The other thing I like to do is mix it with regular Coke-cola. The tartness adds an mellow charm to an otherwise often overly sweet drink.
I’m a paying member too, but I appreciate it when an early post points me to other, similar, threads. IMHO it’s quite a courtesy to the OP as well as thread readers. Aside from the notion that not everyone can search, not everyone is aware that there were past topics, and previous threads have a lot to offer. It’s also not a complete thread-killer either—new people with new opinions/comments still post to the new thread, and one still gets to read the posts of those who don’t want to retype what they had to say.
That being said, mmm… pomegranates. Besides eating them like candy, if I have the time/patience, I like to pull out a large pile of fresh seeds, throw them in the blender with a small amount of yogurt and maybe a banana or some other complimentary fruit and make smoothies. If I am really up for it, I’ll bake some French bread earlier in the day, and serve the smoothy with bread, cheese and dried sausages for dinner. Mmmm… pomegranates!
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Pomegranates are my favorite. I haven’t seen any yet though. I’ll have to go to the grocery today and check. Yay!!
I’ve never used them in a recipe, I just like to eat them.
When I was a wee tyke in maybe 3rd or 4th grade, I was in some gifted program at school where we were studying Greek mythology. My mother, at the store one day, saw pomegranates and decided to buy me one as a tie-in to what I was learning and telling her about on a nightly basis. I came home, she told me she had bought it and I attempted to eat it like you would an apple.
Yeah, that was an experiment that didn’t last too long 
I was grateful for the link, allowing me to access my favorite recipe, and post it here. I believe LavenderBlue’s actions were most appropriate, and an expected response from serious dopers: Fighting ignorance by gathering relevant information. If the OP has serious problems with this issue, the OP can certainly take it to the pit, where the OP will probably end up regretting posting it.
Pomegranite juice is so yummy, but just a bit too sweet for me in large amounts. I tend to swig too much of it. I’d best settle for the delicious seeds.
Pardon my ignorance, that’s why we’re here right?
I’ve not had any pomegranate for maybe 25 years. But my recollection is that the seeds were bitter and needed to be spit out.
Sounds as though i’m missing something. You eat the seeds too?
Please enlighten me.
Take it easy, he’s just trying to help you out. There’s a proverb about biting the hand that feeds you…
As for pomegranates, stay well away from those (unless you actually want to end up married to the god of death and the underworld…) Alternatively, this site has quite a few suggestions.
The Pomegranate Board says they’re only available September through January. But I distinctly remember buying pom juice at a farmers’ market in Redondo Beach in early August.
I thought it was disgustingly sweet-tart and tossed it about halfway through the bottle. Should have tried the vodka trick, I think.
> TWEEET!! < :: Moderator blows whistle ::
Lee, hop outside, take a few deep breaths of nice clean air, enjoy the sun, and come back relaxed. Lavender Blue was just posting a link to a similar thread, that he had started. Yes, you posted to it and so were already aware of it, but Lavender didn’t post to it after you did, so he may not have been aware that you posted in it. In short, relax, no reason to get snarky. There’s enough pome enthusiasts that I’m sure we can manage two threads, unless I’m taking that for [pome]granate.
Play nice. And be charitable in your interpretation of what others post, they’re usually trying to be helpful.
Not eat the seeds??? :eek: :eek:
What else is there to try and eat of it? The rest is nassssssssssssssssty!
The seeds are chock-full of sweet juice! I prefer to crunch the pips in the seeds, getting much vital fiber, but some spit them out.
But the seeds are the whole point.