how to: pomegranate

so since it cooler pomegranates are in season and i love them. i will eat the seeds by themselves or put them in homemade cranberry sauce. i've seen pictures in magazines and online on how to get the seeds out but it would still be messy so break open, so when i wanted to eat the pomegranate i thought to score the skin deeper and it worked!        

        you'll need:
      a cutting board
      a sharp knife 
      a large bowl filled with cold water
      another empty bowl for the seeds
      another bowl to discard the skin and other unedibles [it's easier to have a bowl right next to    what your working on than having to go back and forth to the trash can]

score the pomegranate 2xs in a X pattern as you can see

    this part take alot of skill, put pomegranate in bowl of water. i hope nobody gets too    overwhelmed with this.

   i didn't get a pic of me breaking the pomegranate open but all you do is just pull it apart under the water the reason why you have it under the water is so the dark juice doesn't squirt all over you kitchen and on you.

then you work the seeds off. i just use my thumb and just break them off i don't keep my hands under the water the whole time cuz they would freeze but it's easier to keep

    what the inside of the pomegranate looks like in case anybody was wondering it's almost too perdy to mess up. well not really.

oh before i keep going i will warn you this task is VERY tedious i'm telling you now because it will seem like forever to get all those seeds and trust me you want to get all the seed out because you would'nt want to waste them one seed not one! not like their expenisive but because their really good.  but it is very very tedious if you are somebody who likes todo things quickly [and i will admit i'm not the most patient person in the world but when i'm working on something i like to take my time] but if you're someone who likes to get it done you will hate taking all those seeds out because it took me a while and i did 2. but i just wanted to warn you. ok let move on.

    10 minutes after [i told you it would take awhile] this is just from one pomegranate. another reason why you have the seed in water is you see the yellowish membrane thing at the top well you don't want to eat that so therefore the seeds fall at the bottom of the bowl and the yellowish thing [i don't really know what it's called] floats at the top so you can separate the seeds. and the yellowish stuff will still be stuck on a seed or two and it will float to the top so you can get it off at the seed.
oh and yes the seeds are edible.

   after you got all the seeds off the you want to strain them and then eat right away or you can save them for some homemade cranberry sauce. 
enjoy!

what's going on

my goodness i haven't put up a new post in forevea sorry guys i've just been so swamped with all of the renovation from doing the the back room and then the Fallapalooza stuff that we just had this past weekend which was a big success.  but now that all that is over things can get back to normal and i'm looking forward to thanksgiving for some reason this year i know it's like a month away but still n i'm starting to get excited for chirstmas but let's do thanksgiving first. and our dinging room is covered with tons of fall fruit and someother stuff .


i will show ya'll the finished look on that were gonna finish up on the rest of the decorating today. sooo yeah i'm hoping to have a recipe post sometime soon. soooo yeah i guess i'll write ya lata

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Things about myself:

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tagg!!

i got tagged by my best frien hannah see her blog here to do the tuesday tag and i love these posts/ things. so yeah





1-Who was your mentor growing up? What about now?
mmmm this is really hard, ummm i really don't know, i guess alot of different people because i learned from them, so i can't really pin point who.

2-If you had a shopping spree at one store, which store would it be?
oh geeze, bath &body works, or khols, or hobby lobby 
can i have all 3?

3-If you could own any pet, what would you have, and what would you name it?
a elephant i think their so cool

4-If you could start any business, what would you start?
a restaurant but because it alot more work a coffee shop or a staging business but more coffee shop.

5-Dream vacation spot?
Paris then Europe

6-If you started a charity, what would it be for?
  probably something to do with helping people in need of personal things i.e. toothpaste, shampoo, soap cuz usually people either think of food or shelter but hey they have to have something for good hygiene.

7-What's on your Christmas list this year?
ipod touch
car {HA}
blackberry torch
b & bw


8-What are/would you be for Halloween?
um if i would be into that probably a ninja

start small finish big part 2

so i am so glad to say that we are done with the room well not completely but theirs still some stuff that we do need todo. i'll do a list
walls painted:check
floor down:check
molding up:check 
shelves:check
furniture in:check


so we still need to hang up some pictures n things on the walls, and repaint a bench and glider and a desk and side drawers, oh and sand the bench, desk and drawers. and hang up the curtains and because the windows aren't the average size windows my mom has to shorten them but we got some sheers ready made so shes not having to make them from just fabric, and we don't know if the sewing machine works so we need to see if it works first otherwise we'll just buy one from walmart but still. 

before: so dark so ugly so dated

the desk...duh

the floor...duh

After!!!  the shelves we got at guls a local store that has 2nd hand stuff, kind of like goodwill. i want to have baskets with stuff in them so it looks more organized and doesn't look scattered. mo way were leaving that stuff their.

     mom n paul lovin the new room i think she likes it, it's actually her "room" like where she can go to do stuff idk what she is going to do, but i guess she'll do some stuff.we're going to repaint the glider a dark brown so it doesn't look so lawn furnitureish [it's a word] and replace the cushions sad *sarcasm.  i want to get a couple floor pillows for the back and have a foam piece cover in fabric for the bottom with a couple throw pillows.

 the desk/office space [haha] i think it's sound more official to call it the office space. we're going to repaint the drawers n desk we got the chair at lowes for $15 the drawers n desk we've had forever.

the shelves we put boxes we have tools in and a few other randoms that we don't want seen wee going to put a curtain up so it is unnoticeable but sitll easy to get that duck tape i mean hammer n nails when you need to hang that picture up.





so yeah we still do have a bit todo but this is the fun part!!


lata 
geeze i need to go to bed it 2 am!