This is what I came home to on Friday night: 
Lindsay from POM Wonderful contacted me about a week ago to see if I was interested in receiving some POM to try and review. Absolutely! I didn’t expect that she would send me 8 great bottles, so I was quite surprised when I saw all of this! They are so cute, like a little row of POM people 🙂 POM recently launched a really cool new POM community website. As you know by now, I love brands that go that extra step to engage customers rather than just pushing the product, and the POM community is an amazing way to find new recipes and to learn about the health benefits of POM products. Challenged to come up with unique and delicious POM recipes, I got thinking and decided that my first POM recipe would be a pizza. My pizza was actually inspired by a trip to Todd English’s Figs where we had a fig and gorgonzola pizza with a balsamic reduction. Only this time, the reduction was POM. Please note that the pizza did not come out very pretty, but it tasted amazing. I started with a ball of whole wheat pizza dough from Trader Joe’s, Salem blue cheese, Trader Joe’s chicken apple sausage, and 1/2 bottle of POM Wonderful.
I wanted to add chopped figs to this, but did not find them until after I was done eating. Next time. I rolled out the dough on the counter.
Added the cheese and sausage 
And put the pizza in the oven for about 8 minutes at 425. While it was baking, I was reducing POM in a small pan. Yes, we definitely need new pans.
I took the pizza out and drizzled POM reduction all over it. 
Then put it back in the oven for another 4 minutes. The POM reduction baked into the dough and mixed with the melted blue cheese. This created a sweet and salty combination that was just delicious. I served the pizza with a salad of radicchio, butter lettuce, heirloom tomatoes, and an old throwback, Good Seasons zesty Italian dressing.
And a glass of Trader Joe’s Central Coast Zinfandel, which at $4 a bottle, is an amazing deal, a big, fruit forward wine comparable to $12-15 bottles we have purchased. All in all, a great meal and an excellent way to use POM Wonderful! Reducing it really concentrates the flavor and makes it all yummy and syrupy. I am looking forward to more POM cooking and drinking this week. Thanks, Lindsay!
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It is a gorgeous day here in Boston! I purchased knee sleeves today, and as a result, had a fabulous, pain free run. I also bought a wrist wrap to help with my ever worsening carpal tunnel syndrome, and my wrist has never felt better! Pretty soon I will just be all wrapped up 🙂
I stopped to do a little shopping on my way home, as I had some fun Nigella-inspired recipes planned. I got all of my ingredients at the regular old grocery store, but then stopped at our new Newmarket Produce for some produce goodness:
Yum- Boston Magazine will be my entertainment later 🙂
If you live in Boston, I would highly recommend a trip to this produce store. It is dirt cheap, the produce is fresh, and the staff is super nice. It is at the corner of Mass Ave and Columbia Road in Dorchester.
For tonight’s creations, I made Nigella’s naan pizzas with my own raw sauce twist and caramel croissant bread pudding . Certainly not a light dish, but will be wonderful served topped with all of the berries I bought today!
For my naan pizzas, I made a simple, raw sauce of plum tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, and cracked black pepper. I gently heated the naan in the oven and topped it with the sauce and crumbled Trader Joe’s goat cheese. Perfect for this hot summer evening. What are your go to hot summer night meals?
The caramel croissant pudding is definitely a splurge dish, not healthy at all. But it is delicious and requires very little baking skill. Below I have posted a few photos of the process. If you would like the recipe, definitely check out Nigella’s site.
Making the croissants stale. Don't mind that missing corner. . .
Ready for some caramel sauce
The finished product
I am off to do some cleanup and stretching before reading Boston Magazine in bed, perhaps with a wee glass of Greenvale Vidal Blanc :). Have a great evening!
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