Love ´em or hate ´em figs are everywhere here in the happy Alps. You can smell them ripening on the trees everywhere you go, and they´re bending the boughs over with green and yellow and black fruits.
Last week we went to Pete and Carole and their lovely rooftop terrace-with-a-view for a BBQ - they had family visiting so another great excuse for a get together...seems like we don´t need much persuading to a party here in Murtas!
I brought some figs - yellow sweet ones, cross cut on the top, a spoonful of Philly, a walnut on top and a drizzle of local honey...
Our friends from round the corner came...now he will NOT eat my food! Too spicy, too weird, too FOREIGN!!
But these were figs - real local figs - but then again, I had Messed About with them...However, a couple of glasses of wine - HIS wine - and I was like a dog with a bone...
I offered him one...
Haven´t seen him since....oops.
Photo credit to http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamos/2952564140/
Last week we went to Pete and Carole and their lovely rooftop terrace-with-a-view for a BBQ - they had family visiting so another great excuse for a get together...seems like we don´t need much persuading to a party here in Murtas!
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| like these but uncooked and without the Jamon |
Our friends from round the corner came...now he will NOT eat my food! Too spicy, too weird, too FOREIGN!!
But these were figs - real local figs - but then again, I had Messed About with them...However, a couple of glasses of wine - HIS wine - and I was like a dog with a bone...
I offered him one...
-no, I couldn´t possiblypops the smallest one in his mouth
-have it
-ah no, my stomach
-it´s a bloody fig
-no, not for me
-EAT IT
-ok
-CHEW
-I am, he says looking really sick
-SWALLOW
-He did, with a face that would turn the milk sour
-OPEN AND LET ME SEE
-He did
Haven´t seen him since....oops.
Photo credit to http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamos/2952564140/
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