culinary ramblings

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.