Product Review: POM Wonderful Juice

I had never had any kind of pomegranate stuff before trying this juice. It's just one of those things that never really happened. So when the POM folks offered to send me some I was pretty excited, I like new things. Plus I had heard such good stuff about it all over the blogs. So it arrived and cracked one open to try it out. It was... sweet. And tart. Hm.

I was expecting a little more... something. I'm not sure what. But it was still good and I figured I could do something with it. In fact, I've done two things. One was the lamb shanks I posted about the other day. In fact the half Merlot/half pomegranate juice base was really, really good all by itself. Heh. But the juice went really well with the other flavors in the dish, which was nice. The other thing I did was some beef teriyaki. This was just 3/4 cup pomegranate juice, 1/4 cup soy sauce, a couple cloves of garlic, some ginger, a little sugar and salt and pepper. I kept it very simple to try to showcase the juice and they came out quite well. The sweet/tart juice and salty soy sauce complimented each other nicely. I'm going to work on that recipe a bit, I think it has a lot of promise.

So, POM Wonderful juice. Frankly, I wouldn't buy it to drink on it's own (although apparently it's quite good for you). But I would definitely buy it to use in all kinds of things. In fact, I'm almost out of the bottles they sent me and I don't think I have enough to make what I already have plans for. So I'm probably going to be getting more soon because now I have ideas that I need it for. So that was their plan all along...