*Plan your day well
*Have fun on your vacation
*My thoughts are with your family, my friend
*840, huh? That’s pretty cool. How LONG does it take to eat 840 (give or take) of these gems? Sounds like a seedy proposition.
i also love pomegranates. thanks for this - it was the perfect description of the perfect mythic fruit. :)
Randa, it all depends on how punctillious one is. Some people don’t eat the little crunchy seeds in the center of each pip; I delight in them, they give texture to the flavor. Once I’ve stripped out a whole fruit, I could eat handfuls of pips at a time and finish it all in a few minutes, but I try to limit myself to one or three or five at once - they’re as small as currants, the fruit equivalent of tart-n-tinys. Addictive, but in a good way. Good for the heart, too, I now hear!
I just had some pomegranate seeds in a salad last weekend...it was lovely. “...feel the juice, like summer sunlight, spash across my tongue..” is absolutely beautiful.
I enjoy pomegranates more for their beauty than anything else. The red colour is so rich (I love how you called them ‘rubies’) and gorgeous that I much prefer to look at them than eat them. Plus I’m too impatient to eat the numerous bits. I’m more of a banana person.
beautiful. Dan, only you could transform the description of a simple pomegranate to an epic of orgasmic proportions. i feel like i need a cigarette now. :)
have a safe trip! take pictures, take notes and don’t pet any stray cactus you might find.
Good heavens. I wish I could be that descriptive when I write. I think though that most would die of boredom if I tried!
O MY GAWD!!! I do that too..... This Pomegranate season past, on serveral occasions, I had begged Darren to drive me places where I knew I could get good, cheap ones. I have a system. I first change out into a black shirt and then I do exactly as you blogged and empty them out into a bowl. I then take them to the living room and spoon them into my mouth. Yumm! So good.........
BTW, pre-incarceration, Martha Stewart on one of her shows had a great way to extract the juices from a pomegranate. Cut in 1/2 and using an old fashion orange juice press, you can really get a lot of juice out of those little jewels.
I never thought a pomegranate could be so descriptive, but I have to admit that I lost my will to eat it after the word “membrane.” I hope you have a good weekend, despite your unfortunate family news. My thoughts are with you, as it’s never easy—expected or not.
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