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Friday Food Fun - Summer Garden Produce:
1. What do you grow? This year we didn't grow anything, although we do have one fig bush and one pecan tree and one pear tree. We usually plant at least tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, bell peppers, squash, and zucchini. We used to plant okra, green beans, hot peppers, jalapenos, cantaloupe, black eyed peas, butter beans, lima beans, colored peas, and more when I was little. One year we did green peas. One year we did potatoes. One year we did peanuts.
2. Do you like everything you grow or is there some stuff you grow only for other people? I didn't like the jalapenos and hot peppers.
3. What are some of your favorite dishes to make with fresh produce (if the recipes are simple, include them)? I love fresh vegetables just cooked. Corn is cooked with a little butter. Green beans are cooked with a little bacon, lard, or bouillion cubes, and during the summer we like to throw in some baby potatoes. Most of family loves fried okra, but though I eat a little fried okra, it's better for you and I enjoy it more when it's steamed. Sometimes, for supper, I will slice up a tomato, a cucumber, and a bell pepper, and I'm happy with just a little salt and pepper on them. Fresh vegetables are awesome.
4. Is there anything you love fresh that you won't eat if it's not fresh? I don't like stewed tomatoes.
5. Are there things you have planted in the past that you no longer plant because you think that store-bought is good enough considering the work you have to do for fresh? Potatoes, green peas, peanuts, green beans, blackeyed peas, lima beas, butter beans, and this year - we didn't plant anything due to traveling and vacations and having a new nephew/grandson that comes to visit.
1. What is your favorite fruit? Cherries is my #1 favorite. I also like pineapple, muscadines, red grapes, peaches, watermelon, honeydew melon, figs, and kiwi.
2. If you like fruit salad, what is your favorite combination of fruits to use. I don't care much for fruit salad. But, any combination of my favorites would be fine. You could also add red apples, strawberries, oranges, bananas, cantaloupe and white grapes.
3. Do you have a fruit theme in any of your non-edible items (like clothing, jewelry, handbags, towels, wallpaper, etc.) I have cherry towels and washcloths, 3 cherry purses, a cherry billfold, cherry earrings, a cherry slide, pineapple slide, watermelon slide, and apple slide for my silver chain necklace, a cherry duffle bag and tote bag and several cherry shirts.
4. What is your favorite fruit juice? I like red grape juice, apple juice, and fruit punch made from cherries, apples, grapes and oranges.
5. What is your favorite fruit-flavored ice cream? I love homemade cherry, peach or strawberry ice cream. I like storebought cherry vanilla and black cherry ice cream and lime and orange sherbet.
6. What is your favorite fruit recipe?
There is a delicious fruit pizza recipe that is very good. You make a sugar cookie crust. The sauce is cream cheese. You could probably blend in a little powdered sugar to give it a different thickness. Then you layer slices of the fruit for the toppings. It's very good. You can choose which fruits you want to use. I also like to dip red apple slices in caramel dip and that is much easier than making a fruit pizza.
7. Are there any fruits you don't like? I do not like lemon, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, mango or papaya. There may be others that I haven't tried.
