How delicious. A slice of Salmon is marinating with a little bit of oil and some herbs. WE love fish, it is so easy to cook and even easier to eat and it is good for US and YOU too, WE hope that YOU eat it often?
Norty Laura in Germany will not even look at a piece of fish.. she is a 'meat and two veg' type of girl, unlike her sister and mother who love fish.
What else came back in that pretty shopping basket? More humous, tomatoes, apples, pears for cooking, courgettes / zucchini, dried white mulberries, barberries, dried figs aka big treat!
Talking about figs, it is going to be a cracking year for them! Brown Turkey at home has lots of little figgies, there are two little White Violetta's at the garden and this is the first year they have shown signs of fruiting!
However, the star of HER fig trees at the garden is the Cypriot fig that Adam gave HER all those years ago and which is now absolutely covered in hundreds and hundreds of baby figgies!
He presented HER with a funny looking 'stick' which had a couple of leaves on one end! Told HER where to dig the hole and he planted it, it took four years to grow from that stick into a proper tree.
And it was worth the wait, for the taste is beyond YOUR imagination! They ripen in mid August, the skin goes pale greeny-yellow when they are ripe and they 'bend' down on their stems, the flesh is translucent.
YOU will never see this fruit in a market or a shop for they are extraordinarily fragile, the skin bruises if YOU look at them the wrong way! When SHE
picks them to bring home, they go into a proper 'fig' tray so they are safe.
And if YOU go to Turkey or Greece or the islands and ask about this variety of fig, the locals smile and say "yes, we have one of those at home".
Every year SHE thanks HER old Cypriot friend
for his gift of that 'stick', who knew? SHE didn't!
GeeGee Parrot.
May 17th, 2013.
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