Irony for Dinner

We like to garden. Or maybe I should say, Bobby likes to garden. But mostly it is a family affair, if you count the help the kids put into picking raspberries or blueberries or tomatoes - only to have none to bring inside...

I won't get technical about our gardening, we do it the same way it has been done for a long time, just dirt, plants and water. We do get funny looks every now and then - like we are tree-huggers or organic-gurus or something. Some might think we do it for the healthy benefits and such. Or to be "green."

We actually just enjoy it. Especially eating what comes up.

And as for the health part? Well, this is where the irony comes in.

What do you do with a huge crop of figs? Can them? Yes, we did that. But we still had so many...

So naturally we dipped them in a sweet batter and deep fried them...and served with ice cream! This was after we had fried eggplant for dinner...convenient that the oil stayed hot to fry the figs.

A few weeks ago we harvested our sweet potatoes, which is definitely a fun way to get the kids involved - so much dirt to dig up! We'll be eating sweet potatoes for awhile too...

What better way to eat them?

With marshmallows on top!!

And tonight for dinner? Some homemade, roasted tomato soup with...mac-n-cheese!

Call us what you will, but I like to think of us as Heavenbound!

 

Post by Anna