Impulse buy

[magid]

I am now the owner of a bottle of pomegranate syrup. Not at all sure why I bought it, actually, but it seemed like the thing to get.

So, does anyone have suggestions for what to do with it?
Pomegranate truffles already came to mind, but I'm not sure about that, sounds too strange, somehow. Possibly pomegranate chicken, maybe with walnuts?

Any other ideas?
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Comments

[queue.livejournal.com]

Pomegranate pie!!!

[magid.livejournal.com]

How would you suggest turning syrup into pie?

[queue.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe make cheesecake and put the syrup as a topping?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. Or maybe pomegranate meringue pie? (presumably a little bit easier on the waistband...)
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[queue.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, meringue. You could bring that to pie day, definitely. Or, I would be happy to make pomegranate meringue pie at your house and bring it over.

Pi day pies

[magid.livejournal.com]

And here I was thinking I'd make something savory (quiche more likely than a meat pie, so whatever dairy pie things happened I would be more likely to sample). Or bring scooter pies :-). Or something else not-quite-the-usual sweet-stuff-in-pie-crust. Though perhaps pomegranate meringue qualifies as off the beaten track enough.

Hm... Have to check cookbooks now.
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[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I second the notion. Or motion. Pie. Whatever.

[theora.livejournal.com]

Well, pecan pie turns corn syrup into pie. But I don't think I'd do that with pomegranate.

The chicken idea sounds good. Or perhaps lamb, if you can get it kosher.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I think it's the stickiness of corn syrup that makes pecan pie work. I don't think this syrup is as thick as that. Though with some corn starch, perhaps... Oh, and for some reason I'd use walnuts, not pecans. Not sure why walnuts seem to be the right nut (I only like them in certain situations, myself), though, just that it sounds right.

I was just looking into what lamb I could get at the kosher market (thinking to use stewing lamb with some parsnip-lentil soup I've been gifted with). So far all I found were lamb chops, though I suspect I could special order other cuts. Pricey, though; I think it was over $10/lb...
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[bitty.livejournal.com]

before this gets any further:
PROPER PECAN PIE DOES NOT INVOLVE CORN SYRUP AT ALL.

[magid.livejournal.com]

What does PPP include, then, besides the obvious pie crust and pecans?

[bitty.livejournal.com]

hm. must find that recipe from lcohen's wife...

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Honey, maybe? Or molasses? My mom always used corn syrup (and the pie was _great_, thankyouverymuch).

[arfur]

Brown sugar. eggs. not much else, IIRC.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Dip the rim of a wide wine glass in the syrup, then in sugar. In the glass, mix champagne and raspberry liqueur :) Yum. I had something like this at a Naked Fish restaurant. That was a good time.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Sounds snazzy.

I'm unlikely to do much with champagne, though, due to that dislike for fizzy drinks (a oenephile friend was disgusted when I described champagne as being somehow like flat ginger ale with bubbles added...).
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2 lame suggestions

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Put in a glass with seltzer (preferably homemade) for pomegranate soda.

Pour over ice cream.

Re: 2 lame suggestions

[theora.livejournal.com]

Homemade seltzer? How?

Re: 2 lame suggestions

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

A soda siphon! (http://www.isinorthamerica.com/sodasiphon.html)

The result is, for whatever reason, a lot better to my tongue than stuff out of a bottle. I don't think it's only because of the slapstick connection, either.

Re: soda siphons

[magid.livejournal.com]

NPR had been doing a series on jobs that are becoming extinct (aired sometime last fall), mostly (all?) in the NYC area. One of them was the seltzer (siphon) delivery guy.
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Re: soda siphons

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I heard that story, because Derek's sister worked on that production. :)

The delivery siphons are really cool, but the home version that you charge up yourself works well out here in the sticks. :)

Re: 2 lame suggestions

[magid.livejournal.com]

Not lame at all.

I don't care for fizzy drinks, so I'm unlikely to do much with seltzer, but others are welcome to try it :-).
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remind me

[cthulhia]

when they are again in season.

I keep meaning to squeeze fresh pomegranate over vanilla ice cream.
I had it in New Orleans and it was great!

Sudden canning thoughts

[magid.livejournal.com]

Some kind of jam or jelly? There's not enough in the bottle to make it just pomegranate (though I could go back and get a bottle of pomegranate juice for that); perhaps cran-pomegranate (Yes, I'm cranberry-insane, I admit it.)? If I were intrepid enough to want to use citrus, an orange-pomegranate marmalade? (Blood oranges? Prolly not worth it.)
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