In our arid location of Southeastern Arizona, there are a few things that grow really well with hardly any effort by the gardener: pecans, roses, and pomegranates. In Duncan, there is a pomegranate tree/bush that is pretty much neglected and yet every year lovely, magenta globes are produced. The tricky bit for me is getting a hold of them before they get too ripe or old. Things conspired in my favor this year and I received the pomegranates right after they were picked and I immediately juiced them with my citrus juicer (just a cheap one). It is much easier to juice them when the white pith part is tender and soft the older they get the harder the white part becomes. Due to the extra rainfall we enjoyed this summer it made for a sweeter, plumper pomegranate.
It was my first time making pomegranate syrup but it is really easy. I find commercial syrup too sweet and I like a little tartness to my fruit syrups so making my own syrups is perfect. I make it in my zojirushi bread machine so it couldn't be easier.
Recipe
4 cups of pomegranate
4 cups of sugar (if you want it to be sweeter add one more cup of sugar)
1/4 c. lemon juice
1 regular sized package of pectin
Place all ingredients in your bread pan and select jam course. When done place in jars and cool.
Eat over pancakes or waffles or mix with lemonade mix to make pomegranate lemonade.
Lovely tart pomegranates
Back when I only had a couple of kids, we ate cereal every day for breakfast. Several years ago daily cereal for breakfast was getting too expensive so I began making a proper hot breakfast. Every day is something different but one day a week is usually steel cut oatmeal (read about how Quinton just loves oatmeal-Ha!) and another day is usually pancakes made with Wonder flour(equal parts of Pearl Barley, Spelt, and Brown Rice). To liven up the pancakes, we ate them with pomegranate syrup and it was so good. Due the deep red of the syrup and the staining ability of pomegranates the boys enjoy this syrup shirtless. It probably taste better that way.
McCoy dangerously has his football cards spread out around his plate
(you may wonder why is he holding his fork in one hand yet eating his pancake with the other forkless hand it must be the lack of a shirt that brings out the caveman)
Declan pours on some tasty syrup,
not sure how safe it is to take off the shirt and
then put it in your lap in the drip path
Can't you almost taste that first bite
Eddy got around the shirtless bit by wearing a shirt
that was the same color as the syrup, clever fellow.
If you can get a hold of some pomegranates, I would recommend making some syrup and then enjoy a shirtless breakfast!
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