Mastodawn

I cooked some chard from the garden with some of the pomegranate juice, and it was really lovely. I adapted a Middle Eastern recipe, where it is common to cook lentils and spinach with some pomegranate juice.

I am really happy with the pomegranates themselves too. They are so ripe and sweet, much like the ones I used to find in India where they'd serve piles of them on the dessert buffet, and I'd have them with everything.

In other news, I've discovered how excellent baked extra firm tofu is. Just tossed with oil, salt, pepper, spices, and baked. Toss them a couple of times. I love to bake them with some cooked chickpeas so they get crispy too. Extra protein hit.

If you hold back on the spices, you can toss them with an Asian style sauce near the end of the cooking. I've used some dipping sauces, and also hoisin sauce is excellent.

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Ganga 2d ago

I've made pomegranate juice! The arils from 3 of my pomegranates, briefly blitzed to break the outer part without mincing the inner harder part of the aril. Strained. I have about 2 cups I think, which I will freeze. It is lovely added to dishes - especially spinach! And chia puddings. Also smoothies. I am quite chuffed with this.

(I used to have a cold press juicer which makes juicing them easy. But it died and I no longer use a juicer enough to replace it. They are expensive!)

Such a lovely colour.

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Ganga May 4

I've just been "shelling" (is that the right word?) pomegranates. Well, one in particular, a whopping 500gram-er. DEEP blood red juice when I cut it in half. Then I went to break it into smaller bits and arils shot every which way, all over the counter and kitchen floor. Finding them all took ages, while the cutting board and counter were reddening quickly.

I changed my top, put a towel on the floor (I should have put 2 down) and went back to work. The trick is to face the arils DOWN as you tear them open, but even that is not foolproof.

Still, a container full of arils is now in the fridge, with 3 more pomegranates to go.

Maybe making juice from this lot would be a good idea.

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