I ate my first fig
I didn’t care for it. It tasted nothing like Fig Newtons.
We have an elderly neighbor who sometimes calls upon us to wrangle technology for her. She has a large and attentive family, but when they aren’t available, we’ll do. We had to sort a DVD player for her.
We’re building up a karmic reserve. Ain’t no large and attentive family for us when we go gaga.
Once years ago she grew all sorts of things in her garden, but now all she has are those things that survive and produce after years of neglect. We get paid in things like figs, artichokes and walnuts.
Have a good weekend. Don’t eat anything I wouldn’t eat!
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 8
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Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 16, 2024, 8:05 pm
Would you eat spicy rubber bands?
We had Korean BBQ for lunch and spicy squid was one of the choices to cook on the table top grill.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: August 16, 2024, 9:21 pm
I love fresh figs. We see them for less than two months out of the year, and they’re available right now. Evidently, they don’t travel well: too green and they don’t ripen correctly, too ripe and they end up mush.
Our neighbors disapprove of fruit trees because, they claim, they attract pests e.g. rats. I tell them they have no evidence of that because there are no fruit trees in the neighborhood. And then they tell me, “Do you see any rats around here? The ban obviously works! QED!”
@Durned — squid is hard to grill. You have to be right there every second. Take ’em off too soon, and they are unpleasantly raw inside. Too late, and, as you’ve found out, you get spicy rubber bands. I prefer dried squid. There’s never any mystery: rubber bands guaranteed!
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: August 17, 2024, 1:11 am
Calamari for the Calamarians !!!!!!
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: August 17, 2024, 1:27 am
Fresh fig jam, Stoaty, spread on hot buttered Southern-style biscuits. Is buttermilk a thing in the U.K.?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 17, 2024, 8:30 pm
No, no buttermilk. I can still make biscuits, though!
My fig was squishy and horrible and didn’t taste of anything.
Lumme some calimari, but I’ve never cooked it for myself. I don’t cook seafood well. It freaks me out how little time it needs.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 18, 2024, 9:38 am
Sashimi for the win!
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: August 18, 2024, 1:52 pm
Reflections on figs
https://frompagetoplate.com/2015/11/01/the-fig-in-literature/
Comment from steve
Time: August 19, 2024, 11:49 am
Down, round these parts, fig trees are a fairly popular occurrence. But these people put tiny little white mesh bags on each of the individual fruits.
Really! It’s a real thing. (Also, way too much trouble just for the hope of one fruit.
Anyway, turns out some brand of Florida wasp positively has no better place to lay its eggs than inside of a developing fig. So the wee larvae eat their way all around on the inside of the fruit.
As I say, waaay to much effort for just a fig, in my opinion.
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