Thursday 26 April 2012

The Harvest and a Home Made Feast

Yesterday I did my usual walk around the garden to seething if there was anything to harvest.
There was the usual cherry tomato's and the beans are still producing a few each day.  There was a couple of button squash, a couple of mini white cucumbers, a capsicum and some basil.  But most exciting of all there were 2 figs and 2 raspberries.  I know that 2 raspberries are not that exciting but I had 2 last week too and they only got planted back at the start of January and the fig has not been in for a year yet either.  There are more figs yet to ripen and now I just have to be patient.  Hubby also informed me that he is not that taken with figs so lucky me I can have them all.
Any thoughts on what I should do with them?  They are ripening a couple at a time.

Because it it a rare treat that Hubby and I get to spend an entire day just pottering about together I decided that   I would make us a nice lunch to have enjoyed with a bottle of red wine Turkish bread, and some dips, basil pesto, hommous, guacamole.  Then we had olives, my bread and butter pickles, olive oil and dukkah  a bit of cheese and a pesto, tomato and salami pizza.


It was a lovely long lunch shared late in the day after a few hours pottering in the garden. 

5 comments:

  1. That sounds absolutely gorgeous! He is lucky to have you!! We only got one ripe fig from our new tree this year and i had no idea what to do with it lol!

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  2. yum, and I would be excited by 2 raspberries, that's 2 more than I've eaten all year! got to plant myself a raspberry....

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  3. Gosh that sounds like a lovely lunch, and a great harvest! If my fig tree ever bears any figs I am not sharing them with anybody!

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  4. I'm very jealous about the figs. I planted two last year (not yet a year to be fair) and am looking forward to tasting the first crop. In terms of what to do with them, I was at Food Connect here in Brissie yesterday and we had baked apple, bananas and figs in a caramel sauce - OMG! It was heaven on a stick. So I can strongly recommend that. And I had two raspberries this week as well from similarly new canes. I'm just impressed they made it back to the kitchen. Mine didn't (don't tell my husband)

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  5. Yum, that looks delicious!! Sounds like the perfect day. That's so awesome about the figs and raspberries! Even though it was only 2, it's much better than what I could do!!

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