The figs have all been harvested - some by the goats. The watermelon have been harvested.....sweet and juicy.....well the barnyard animals eat the rinds...nothing wasted around here!....and now the Pomegranates. Last year, 2 months after I moved in, there were a measly 3 small fruit on the tree. Some friends had a bounty and shared but this year after the rains and some enrichment of the earth I have a bounty of my own. I stopped counting at 130. Well now I have a problem: what to do with all of these beauties?:
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| pomegranates 2019 |
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| Pom Wonderful |
This is what pomegranates look like growing on a tree. When I was a child my mother would let us pick them but we would definitely have to eat them outside with very few clothes on. I have a vivid memory of my brother, my cousins and I eating pomegranates while stripped down to our undies and "walking" down the long driveway on homemade stilts. Oh what fun!
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| blossoms |
They start out as these pretty blossoms
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| green moms |
Then around the middle of summer they start to look like these.
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| cross section |
If you cut a pomegranate exactly in half they expose this beautiful star shape
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| Poppy |
"Poppy, tell me how your nose got so purple"
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| Arils |
So what to do with this superfood? Well just eating the arils or drinking the juice is yummy but here are some more suggestions: (After all I have 100 or so of them and not that many friends)
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| Pomegranate Margarita |
Pomegranate Margarita:
Pomegranate juice
lime juice
agave to sweeten
Tequila
Triple Sec
Jalapeno pepper
These can be addicting. Try soaking a Jalapeño (pierced but not seeded) in Tequila overnight. This will add a kick to the Tequila that is powerful.
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| Pomegranate champagne cocktail |
Pomegranate champagne cocktail:
Pomegranate juice
champagne
reserved arils
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| Pomegranate jelly |
Pomegranate Jelly
Time consuming but worth it.
Here's what I harvested today along with my poms. Now time for my Margarita:
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| October harvest |
