Figs: I haz 'em
I apparently omitted to mention figs this year.
This is what can only be called an oversight.
The property we are trying to renovate came with a fig tree in the back. At least, we thought it was a fig tree, or a dying fig tree. It was covered with vines at any rate. At one point we pulled all the vines off and then it sprang back to leafy life. The next spring it bore fruit.
And this spring it bore fruit again. Lots of it. In the middle of a drought, I picked about 13 pounds of figs before ApolloCon intervened and the birds took whatever was left.
Thirteen pounds of figs is lots of figs. Lots and lots of figs.
Last year I didn't know how to process the figs quickly, and I lost about half at least of what I'd picked. I still got something like 16 jars of jam and 5 of onion-fig jam.
This year I had it down to a system and froze as much as I could, in anticipation of making other things. So far we've had a few things like steak-with-griddled-figs, but mostly now I need things that don't care if the figs are, well, softer than they should be.
So far I've made a chutney, which was fabulous but an awful lot of work for two and half pints of chutney.
Tonight I'm making a chicken-and-fig tagine, sort of.
But that still leaves me with a lot of figs. So it's going to be fig this and fig that around here for the next month or two, I think.
This is what can only be called an oversight.
The property we are trying to renovate came with a fig tree in the back. At least, we thought it was a fig tree, or a dying fig tree. It was covered with vines at any rate. At one point we pulled all the vines off and then it sprang back to leafy life. The next spring it bore fruit.
And this spring it bore fruit again. Lots of it. In the middle of a drought, I picked about 13 pounds of figs before ApolloCon intervened and the birds took whatever was left.
Thirteen pounds of figs is lots of figs. Lots and lots of figs.
Last year I didn't know how to process the figs quickly, and I lost about half at least of what I'd picked. I still got something like 16 jars of jam and 5 of onion-fig jam.
This year I had it down to a system and froze as much as I could, in anticipation of making other things. So far we've had a few things like steak-with-griddled-figs, but mostly now I need things that don't care if the figs are, well, softer than they should be.
So far I've made a chutney, which was fabulous but an awful lot of work for two and half pints of chutney.
Tonight I'm making a chicken-and-fig tagine, sort of.
But that still leaves me with a lot of figs. So it's going to be fig this and fig that around here for the next month or two, I think.