Pomegranates Are Yummy!!!

Allison Clonts gave us a big bag of pomegranates from her tree. Drew and I were so excited because we just watched "Good Eats" on the Food Network and our favorite guy Alton Brown taught us how to make juice, grenadine, and glazes. We decided to try out his crafty techniques.


First you cut the ends off each side then make four slices down the fruit. (don't cut all the way through or you will have a big mess)


The get a bowl of water and gently start breaking apart the fruit and remove the seeds. Place seeds in the blender (isn't my assistant so CUTE!!!)

Pulse a fews time to burst the seeds release the juice.


Now if you want to make Grenadine add fours cups of juice, 1 Tbs fresh Lemon juice, 1/2 cup of sugar and place over medium heat. Once the sugar has dissolved lower heat a little and let it cook for 50 mins or until if reduces to 1 1/2 cups.

You have juice and grenadine for Shirley Temples.

I feel like I am on food network. I thought it was fun and suggest you try it. Your kitchen may be covered in pink juice but it's so pretty.

"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"

On Monday, October 6 Drew and I took a day to play! Some friends of ours the day before told Drew and I about this Underwood Family Farm in Moorpark. It sounded super fun so we decided that is what we were going to do on our day. After Seminary we went home and changed into our Farm attire and drove to the farm.

Next year we totally need to get cow boy boots.


We went on a tractor ride! It takes you through all of there different fields of fruits and vegetables. We drove through a tunnel of gourds it was so cool to see them hanging there. I thought they were going to fall and knock someone out.

The farm also had a corn maze. We thought it was going to be soooo fun until we couldn't find the hay pyramid in the middle of it. We stink at the whole maze thing because we were so annoyed with all the stupid dead ends. Finally we gave up and went through the exit and "found" the pyramid of hay. The sad part was the three little kids came a few minutes later going the right way through the maze. How sad are we=)

At the farm you also get to pick your own fruits and vegetable depending on the season. We picked sugar pumpkins to make homemade pumpkin pie. They had a couple large fields of all different types of pumpkins and squash.


On our way out of the farm we stopped at there farmers market and had a lot of fun buying all sorts of good food. This is our loot from the market. We bought beets, all sorts of different kinds of squash, 13 sugar pumpkin (10 for Drew's Mom), Strawberries, Apples and tons of different kinds and colors of pumpkins. Oh at the farm they also have there own Bee colony to harvest there own honey. Drew wanted to buy a couple of straws full of honey.....

Not a bad idea until, the big nerd that I am sat on them with my rump and broke them which resulted in my very own Honey Buns!!!!

* that was one of my favorite parts of the trip because it was all over everything and her rump was covered in it. I would like to think a scenario like this won't happen again, but I would be lying. ~ Drew