#21: Eat a fruit I've never eaten before

not particularly recent, but i decided to update my 101 things.

i'm not keeping up with it very well. i came up with the list during the summer, when i was working and living at home and having dinner parties every weekend. it's amazing how much free time i had. maybe because work was boring and they never gave me anything to do. and when i asked for something to do my boss said 'you've got drive. i like it.' ....and then never gave me anything to do except follow people around.

so, yeah, definitely won't finish everything, especially the do something every time period things. i'm pretty sure i hug someone every day, but who can keep track?

but hey, look, i ate a pomegranate for the first time!
yay! it was juicy and squishy and yummy and staining. we only had a dull butter knife to open it with, so you can imagine the hilarity. and the juice everywhere.

we looked online to find out the best way to crack one of these things open. apparently, you should cut off the top and bottom, and cut along the white rind thingies (only they're not called rind...but the white/yellowish stuff) that make a star shape. only sometimes they're really hard to find and sometimes you have a really dull knife.

so, you cut into the pomegranate, just breaking the skin, and you have five cuts. you break off the fifths of the fruit along the cuts. only sometimes only a little piece breaks off. and it's not the whole peel. and your cream sweater had a soy sauce stain on it anyway and more colors won't really matter. needless to say, we had difficulty.

so, after you have your perfect fifths of fruit, peel off the rind and start separating the capsule things from the white stuff. you can do this in water, and the capsules will sink and the white stuff will float. only don't squeeze too many of the capsules so that the juice squirts out. it's really really fun...but then you don't get to eat them.

and, in the end, you have yummy pomegranate. yay!



in other news....emmanuelle gets a makeover! yay!

yes i know super cool! when it's not on it looks like a mirror...but then when the screen lights up you can see through it! but not very well in the sun....


rawr!