They're here!

The fresh figs are in the grocery stores!

September is always the magic month when these luscious fruits make their brief annual appearance. Now, pretty much everybody has had a Fig Newton cookie, and probably a big percentage have had a dried fig to eat, but these fresh fruits are a completely different sensory and taste experience. They are so sweet and juicy and good!

Ian and I went shopping in Arlington Tuesday night and then after dinner at Chevy's (where Ian proceeded to call every vegetable by its grocery store numerical code) we stopped in at a Harris Teeter store to look at the produce. I found a nice little plastic container of black mission figs that weren't too terribly overpriced, so I bought it and brought it home.

I tried to get Leo to eat one, but he touched one and didn't like the feel or the texture or some such excuse and he wouldn't eat it. Well, that left all the more for me to eat. The whole container's gone now!

Above is a picture of some of the figs I brought home. Ignore the white haze on the whole figs—that's reflection from my flash on the white plate. I'll have to get some more while they're here, and maybe I'll wander over to Dean and Deluca and pick up one or two yellow figs. They make wonderful, simple desserts—I love fresh figs!

And, by the way, I've never liked Fig Newtons.