We eat a ton of fruit in our home, each week we pick up the freshest local organic fruit that we can find. There is fruit that we purchase even if it isn’t local, for instance pomegranates. My mother loves pomegranates and I remember being a little girl and her giving me half of a pomegranate. I remember thinking it was a very odd fruit and I wasn’t sure that I would like it. However, I loved it. Eben has been eating pomegranates since he was a toddler and whenever we go marketing he always asks if we can get pomegranates. We always buy them when we can find them. We cut them in quarters and then eat them straight from the peel. Delicious. Last weekend, we stopped at Costco on our way home from Boulder. Costco had a crate of six giant pomegranates for $12. Wow! A bargain, compared to the $5 a pomegranate that we pay at our local fancy grocery store. They are giant too, about the size of a softball.
Do you love pomegranates?
How do you prepare them?
What do you think of the giant ones I found?
XO.
We recently saw similar-sized pomegranates for 99 cents each at our local ShopRite. We were SO tempted to get one except that we already had one at home from a friend, and I find them rather rich to eat quickly. But boy are they a treat! Where are they grow, do you know?
Hi Caleb and Emily Designs,
We eat them everyday, so they aren’t wasted at our home. We just love, love, love them.
XO,
Sweet Greens.
i used to make a delicious pomegranate sorbet. i’ll hunt up the recipe for you. if i remember correctly, it’s really simple.
Hi Annette,
That would be fab. I have an icecream maker, so I could whip some up.
XO,
Sweet Greens.
my favorite recipe book EVER…apples for jam, by tessa kiros has this simple wonder of a recipe.
4 ripe pomegranates
juice of one lemon
4 1/4 ounces caster sugar (superfine)
juice the pomegranates thoroughly. should have 1 3/4 cups juice. put the lemon juice in a saucepan with the sugar and 2-3 tablespoons of the pomegranate juice. heat, stirring, over medium-low heat until the sugar has dissolved. remove from heat, leave to cool a little and stir in the rest of the pomegranate juice.
pour into your ice cream machine and churn, following the manufacturer’s instructions.
serves 4.
there are also directions for those of us who don’t have a ice cream machine. if anyone is interested i’ll add them
Hi Annette,
Sounds delicious. Can I share this on Sweet Greens? I can’t wait to try it.
Thank you for sharing.
XO,
Sweet Greens.
I have only eaten them as juice…well drank them I guess…I thought they were full of seeds…can you eat the seeds or do you spit them out? Educate me!
Hi one4earth,
We eat the seeds and they are delicious.
XO,
Sweet Greens.