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"Fig-Breath..."
« on: July 21, 2021, 10:39:55 AM »
Our first crop of Brown Turkey Figs for 2021...our little tree is "loaded!" Need to check the tree now ever day through August!  :thumb: :cool: :boozing: :wink: :smiley:

Delicious eaten as is, right off the tree, or, slice in two, add a little goat cheese, crushed walnuts and drizzled with a little clover honey! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Mmmmmmmm-BOY!! :cool:





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Re: "Fig-Breath..."
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2021, 10:57:17 AM »
I LOVE FRESH FIGS!!! You got me salivating over here in Massachusetts!

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« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2021, 11:01:41 AM »
Yummy!

Brings back memories eating them right off the tree.   Visiting Italy, Grandfather's home.  They were enormous.       

Enjoy!
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Re: "Fig-Breath..."
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2021, 11:06:21 AM »
Try grilled or smoked/grilled.  Fantastic!
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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2021, 11:13:11 AM »
Looks good.   A late frost thinned our peaches completely and got most of our Celeste Figs, but the figs are coming back pretty well.  I like them paired with olives, preferably kalamata-





And the muscadines vines are loaded this year.





It should be a good-eating & wine-making fruit season....
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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2021, 11:16:03 AM »
  cut 'em in half, a few drops of balsamic vinegar on each half and onto the grill.

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Re: "Fig-Breath..."
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2021, 12:57:25 PM »
When I travelled through Turkey in 2019, I was regularly pulling ripe figs and (almost) ripe pomegranates off trees. The pomegranates were usually part of larger orchards, but for the figs, many of the ancient historical sites have fig trees growing onsite. Being the land of merchants, someone would pick from the trees and sell the fruit at a nearby stand, ha. I decided to skip the merchant and usually went straight to the source. Figs, dates, pomegranates, yum.
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Re: "Fig-Breath..."
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2021, 02:34:55 PM »
Great looking figs, JJ! My wifes family has a bunch of fig and pomegranite trees at their home in Douglas. I love eating both fresh off the trees!  Its funny, the people of northern Sonora grow pomegranites at many of their ranches, and  have a tradition of eating pomegranite like cereal, pouring milk over the little red balls. I thought it was too weird for me until I tried it... Wow! sweetened with a bit of splenda or sugar, a bowl of pomegranite fruit with cold milk, eaten like cereal with a teaspoon, is incredible! Try it some time. :thumb:
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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2021, 03:11:01 PM »
Feast of the Gods.  It's a major crime here in GA to eat off someones tree.
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Re: "Fig-Breath..."
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2021, 05:15:52 PM »
Great looking figs, JJ! My wifes family has a bunch of fig and pomegranite trees at their home in Douglas. I love eating both fresh off the trees!  Its funny, the people of northern Sonora grow pomegranites at many of their ranches, and  have a tradition of eating pomegranite like cereal, pouring milk over the little red balls. I thought it was too weird for me until I tried it... Wow! sweetened with a bit of splenda or sugar, a bowl of pomegranite fruit with cold milk, eaten like cereal with a teaspoon, is incredible! Try it some time. :thumb:
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Thanks for your kind words bigbikerrick!!

It kind of an Italian thing in my family...Like Tomatoes, my grandfather and father always had fig trees growing in the yard, usually, Black Mission figs...so I am carrying on the tradition!  :thumb: :cool: :boozing: :wink: :smiley:











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