Pomegranates!

Have you ever eated a pomegranate? If not- you need to get a few next time you're out! They're not very common, and not very many people eat them. At first when I cut it open, I thought it looked really freaky.
What you do is cut off the crown of the pomegranate, first. Then you take a knife and make grooves in the skin of the pomegranate on the outside. Then, you take it and soak it in cold water for 10 minutes. Then, you pull off the skin and the membrane, and take the seeds out. The seeds will sink to the bottom of the bowl of water. When you're done, take out all of the skins, strain the bowl, and there you go!
These are REALLY good. They look weird, but they taste amazing. Try it sometime!! :)
~Adelaide

AllRecipes.com

So I was messing around online last night, and I found this really cool site, and it has just about every recipe you could ever imagine. Check it out! :)

~Adi

Cream Puffs

CREAM PUFFS

Anyone can Bake

Ingredients:

1 cup full of water

1/2 cup butter

1/8  teaspoon salt

(if your using salted butter u don't have to add salt:))

1 cup of all-purpose flour

(basically a fancy way of saying white flour.)

4 eggs

3 cups of whipped cream, pudding, or ice cream

OPTIONAL: cocoa powder and/or powdered sugar

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.

2. In a saucepan, bring water, butter, and salt to a boil.

3. Add the flour all at once, and keep on a-stirrin' till the dough forms into a ball.

4. Remove from the heat, and let the dough cool for...about 10 minutes.

5. When it's done cooling, add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one gets dropped in.

6. When it's all stirred, drop the dough on a cookie sheet THAT HAS BEEN SPRAYED WITH COOKING SPRAY, into twelve mounds. (just make sure they're not too close-they expand to like 3 times their size.)

7. Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes, or until they're golden brown. DO NOT OVER BAKE: the first time I made these, I over baked them, and they didn't taste too hot o.o

8.When they're done, immediately take them off the cookie sheet, and let them cool for a while. (I usually put them all on a plate and set them in the fridge.. it helps them cool faster;))

9. When they're done cooling, carefully slice off about 1/3 to 1/2 the top of each cream puff, and with a fork, take the dough out of the middle of each one.

10. Whether it's whipped cream, pudding, or ice cream, fill up the bottom half of each cream puff, and when you're done, put the other half on top of it.

It's better to serve these immediately after they're done, because once the ice cream/whipped cream/pudding reaches room temperature, it's kinda nasty. If you ARE gonna save them, make sure to put them in the fridge. :)

11. Eat them, duh

These (i thought) were super amazing and delicious. Everyone liked them. :D I made mine with pudding. The 1st batch I made I burnt the puffs a little...The second one I made they got cooked to perfection, and in the pudding I smashed up 1/2 a banana and mixed it in with the vanilla pudding. It was pretty good.

If you're new to cooking, this recipe is SO for you. It's so easy! 

~Adi :3