{"id":2315,"date":"2011-01-29T21:41:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T02:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2011-01-29T21:44:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T02:44:37","slug":"pome-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/01\/pome-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Pome-Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pomegranate\"<\/a>I think I bought one pomegranate in my life, many years ago, and didn’t enjoy it. I thought you had to eat just the red juicy part and spit out the seeds. Way too much work to eat that way, and way too much waste.<\/p>\n

Years later I learned that you’re supposed to eat everything, but I just never bought another one of these fruits. Didn’t really know what to do with them.<\/p>\n

More years passed, and we started hearing all sorts of things about how wonderful pomegranates are for our health. I bought some pomegranate juice, and really liked it, particularly when I extended it with water or seltzer. <\/p>\n

Then a few weeks ago my friends from WV were coming over. I’d be feeding them dinner. I went to Canticle Farm’s<\/a> winter sale and picked up some wonderful organic spinach and lettuce for a salad, and made that great beet soup<\/a>. I still had to stop at the store to pick up a few things. <\/p>\n

That’s when the pomegranates called out to me in the produce aisle. Why this time? I can’t say, except that their beautiful redness certainly caught my attention. So I bought one, intending to put it in the salad.<\/p>\n

I did put the whole thing in that salad, and it was marvelous!<\/em> My friends and I agreed that it added a great freshness to the salad, with the perfect blend of sweet & tart. Plus the ruby seeds were beautiful.<\/p>\n

We didn’t use up all the spinach & lettuce, and I loved the pomegranate so much that I went to the store and bought another for my salad. Again I used the entire pomegranate in the salad, and again I loved it.<\/p>\n

This is really the end of pomegranate season, and the little store closest to me had some very sad-looking ones left, marked down considerably. I decided that they’d probably be fine, and picked up four.<\/p>\n

Not feeling great most of the day today, I thought some fruit might cheer me up, and sat at my kitchen table making quite a mess. And loving it.<\/p>\n

The skin is hard & drying out, indicating that I’ll have to eat them up pretty fast. It’ll be a sacrifice, but I think I can handle it. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

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I think I bought one pomegranate in my life, many years ago, and didn’t enjoy it. I thought you had to eat just the red juicy part and spit out the seeds. Way too much work to eat that way, and way too much waste.<\/p>\n

Years later I learned that you’re supposed to eat everything, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-food","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}