Inspired by all those lovely bloggers who attended the Pom Harvest Tour; I decided to purchase some pomegranates at the store the other day!

Pomegranates are IN SEASON now and are FULL of antioxidants. Not to mention those seeds (arils) inside of the pomegranate taste delicious!

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Inspired by all those lovely bloggers who attended the Pom Harvest Tour; I decided to purchase some pomegranates at the store the other day!

Pomegranates are IN SEASON now and are FULL of antioxidants. Not to mention those seeds (arils) inside of the pomegranate taste delicious!

So how do you get to those seeds? I didn’t really know for sure. But this is what I did:

You’ll need 1 lovely pomegranate and 1 knife

I sliced the pomegranate in half

*Be careful what you’re wearing because that sweet ruby red juice gets EVERYWHERE and STAINS!

I then cut a little bit through each half but then used my hands to open it up the rest of the way. Now it was in quarters.

I worked over a bowl filled with water to pick out the arils from each quarter. I read that it makes things easier when you do this because the arils fall to the bottom and the white membrane floats to the top, so they can be easily separated.

SEE!:

Then you can skim off the white membrane and try and get any strays and then you are left with beautiful, juicy arils!

I scooped them out, picked away the stray membrane, dried them off and put them in a glass container to keep in the fridge to snack on and to put in salads and oats.  

Except… then I ate half of them

And then when the bf came home… we ate the rest.

At least I have another one!

MMMMM I love Pomegranates!

Dinner

The bf wanted to take me for a quick bite at one of his favorite restaurants Lovely Day which just reopened because of a fire last year.

We showed up and it was completed packed! It’s a tiny, casual Thai place, but it was apparently the hottest spot in the city. Not only was there a 1.5 hour wait for 2 people, but I could have sworn I saw an Olsen twin sitting in there (Mary-Kate, I believe )!

Hopefully it will calm down and I’ll be able to get a taste.

Today includes more studying, an OUTSIDE RUN, and then GLEE!  I’m such a “Gleek”.

Have a great humpday!

Updated to Add: Apparently Glee isn’t back on until next week when the World Series is over. Not cool, World Series, not cool.

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