culinary ramblings

[dchenes]

I'm mildly confused by the fact that I came home from the grocery store with a pomegranate. I like pomegranates, and I bought the thing intending to make pomegranate chicken with it, but finding pomegranates in Kent is a little like finding a white elephant. (I've got an incipient rant about buying cheese in Kent, too; I would kill for a Trader Joe's run right now.)

Anyway, I think I need another couple of cookbooks. How To Cook Everything has nothing useful to say about pomegranate chicken, and doesn't even really give me a place to start from. I suppose I could start from my sister's recipe for duck with apricots, but that's got balsamic vinegar in it, and I don't think that goes with pomegranates (and I haven't a clue as to what does).

So after some poking around online, it seems that lemon goes with pomegranates. I think I can live with that. Back to wishing I had mint growing in the backyard again...lemon and mint and pomegranate would probably be good. (Anyone care to try making a sorbet out of that? I'd do it if I had an ice cream maker and some decent mint.)

I suppose I should go do something about the fact that the recipe I found calls for wine and I don't have any.

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

epicurious.com doesn't solve all your cooking needs?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

Not in this case. Actually, I forgot all about it, but having looked up pomegranate chicken there, it doesn't really do anything for me. I found another recipe I like better elsewhere.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

I'm mildly confused by the fact that I came home from the grocery store with a pomegranate. I like pomegranates, and I bought the thing intending to make pomegranate chicken with it, but finding pomegranates in Kent is a little like finding a white elephant.

Why, what recipe(s) do you have for white elephants?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

I don't. But if I was going to make one up, it would definitely involve garlic. There's very little that can't be improved with either garlic or chocolate sauce, and white elephant definitely doesn't call for chocolate sauce.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

There's very little that can't be improved with either garlic or chocolate sauce

Hm, and I'm thinking you don't fall into the garlic category...