“When you are so busy working outside of your home, it’s truly important to have the right people to support you. It’s not that you’re too busy, it’s that you need the right resources around you to help you out.” I won’t ever forget that advice, (given along with a plumber’s phone number). Sue had…
by Barbara Bamber | justasmidgen
This looks absolutely delicious. I still have a few poms on hand too! In fact, I have everything but the lettuce…looks like I know what’s going on my grocery list today.
How wonderful to have such special friends and I do love Sue’s advice about a picnic and your salad is just perfect for the occasion.
Mandy
Sue’s advice is really quite sound. Concentrate your efforts and let others, when possible, pick up the slack. This salad works on so many levels, Beautiful to look at and the combo of pomegranate with feta and a touch of maple syrup must taste great!
I love everything in this salad and have about half of it in the house, including the pomegranate. We’d probably eat it with walnuts, though (our usual stand-in for pine nuts since we live in California and walnuts are a local crop). Sue sounds like a wonderful friend.
Loved your post today (not that that’s a new thing!) Liked a lot what Sue had to say. When we’ve been fortunate enough to develop close enduring friendships, why would we ever go trading them in on new ones? Keep and nurture them. Much good stuff to chew on in this post, Smidge! And then there’s the salad. Oh my! Gorgeous!
I have seen so many recipes using pomegranate seeds, and I really must try this one to test our adventurous tongues. Did you use dried oregano?
That looks wonderful! I love the pairing with feta. Great photos too.
Looks beautiful! I like the combination of the sweet tartness of pomegranate with the feta, great idea.
Yum! Feta & pomegranate!
That salad is stunning and your photo superb. I would love to eat this anytime but especially on a picnic.
So pretty – we are being given plentu of pomegranates at the moment by lovely neighbours and it´s good to have a new way to use them!
How beautiful and festive!!
What a beautiful salad! Great for the holiday table!
Delicious *and* picture-perfect salad. Accompanied by that most ideal of main courses, deep friendship. Wonderful!
I love it’s nickname.. “pom” sounds so fun:) Hope it turns out as you’d imagined!
So true… I haven’t done the “indoors” picnic yet, I wish I had done this when my kids were little!
It worked in our favor as well this week.. had a tow-truck recommendation and the guy was so great. It made the process so easy. (If only it made things a little less $$$:)
You know, I was thinking I should have tried candied walnut pieces… in any event, it’s a good thing I didn’t because I’ve been eating a wee too much sugar lately (a girl has to test the product, don’t you know).
Likewise.. always a pleasure to stop by your website… Gotta nurture our fellow bloggers as well;)
I had some dried “more leafy” oregano here that worked so quickly… but I think fresh would be so much more fragrant!
I guess it’s that sweet (maple syrup) salty combo that makes it so good… Thanks as always:)
It is a great combination… and it is getting closer to Christmas:)
What a beautifully festive salad! I love pomegranates!
Sigh.. it’s tough looking at photos when the dish is already eaten.. now I’m wishing I had just a bit more tonight for supper…
Seriously!!?? You get them from your neighbors.. just handed to you in large amounts?? Now I truly am jealous… You’re so very fortunate!
Thanks Melanie and Stefanie:)
Hmmm, yup, that’s what life’s all about food, wine, friends… er friends, wine, food..;)
just divine, such a lovely balance and you are so lucky to have such wonderful old friends.. especially wonderful old friends who throw such great parties! c
That is a darned goodlookin’ salad, and the awesome salad servers don’t hurt the eyes either. Beautiful!
Hey… careful with the “old” bit;) Heehee!
I love those servers.. pretty but not too functional, they’re sooo heavy!! I think it was Pottery Barn years ago…
We’re Jonesing for sugar around here, Smidge — we eat a plain Thanksgiving meal with only pies in the dessert category (We make up for this at Christmas, however). But we also crave green things as they get scarce in the winter. If I have pine nuts, I use them: what we normally have are almonds and walnuts.
This salad looks really, really amazing and so festive, too! Perfect for the holiday season.
So glad you liked it:)
Oh this Pomegranate and Feta Salad looks absolutely amazing. And may I say, the table decor and the plate and utensils for the salad are amazing as well. Very nice
Beautiful, Smidge, the seeds do look like rubies
Thanks Christina… me too:)
I sure enjoy setting up for photos…and then eating:)
I never thought of it that way… they do!
I made the salad last night! It was fantastic. The dressing was particularly good.
I did end up using walnuts though…burned the pine nuts. You were kidding about keeping an eye on them. LOL.
What a nice memories and also to have a special friends… This salad seems so delicious… and beautiful photographs too. I will try as soon as… But the list will be without maple syrup! On the other hand, last night we had a salad with pomegranate molasses (tomatos, cucumbers, walnuts, green onions, parsley, lemon juice and olive oil and green pepper)… We like to use pomegrante in our food culture. But this Sue’s salad is new for me. Thank you dear Barbara, with my love, nia
This is such a beautiful festive salad! I love the combination of feta and the tarness of the pomagrante! I so agree that friends are so very important in a woman’s life. I cherish each and every one of my sisters!
Lovely post. And that salad looks and sounds divine.
You are counted as one of the special friends:) I don’t know what you could substitute maple syrup with? It’s a sweetener, so maybe agave or any other sweet syrup? Thanks as always for your lovely comments…. xo Barb
Yes, a great message for our kids… choose these people wisely and keep them close! Glad to have met you through blogging:)
Thanks so much! Now I shall go off to explore your website:) Take care.
What a colorful share!
I love this recipe! I have been browsing through your posts and you have such a fantastic personality that really shines through in your blog. Keep up the good work!
Well, thanks:)
Thanks so much, I love to have new readers:)