Quote Originally Posted by Brandi View Post
How about some tips and short cuts on making christmas easier? Here I will start!
I love pomagranates this time of year. But they are very messy to deal with. But I do love to sprinkle them on my salad. So in order to deseed them cleanly this is what I do. Get a large bowl of cool water, cut the pom in quarter's and submerge under water and pop the seeds away from the skin. The seeds sink and most of the whitish skin floats. I store them in a container for sometimes two weeks, but they don't last that long in my house.
I found the easiest way to deal, mess-free, with pomegranites, which I love and eat way too many.

Cut off the very top flower-end, and remove a small wedge of the white pulp right below, like you were removing the stem from a tomato. Then lightly score it all around, going just slightly deeper at the stem end and continue back to the top. Put your thumbs in the divot at the top and pull, and it should come apart rather neatly, with no cut or smushed seeds. Put on dark colored clothing, and pick away.