One of the fall traditions that we introduced with our kids as soon as they can walk is going to a local farm and picking eggplants and peppers. We love eggplants because after roasting on charcoal or wood we freeze them for a Romanian eggplant salad (
link here). We also love to roast and freeze sweet and hot red bell peppers. This year we even attempted pickling jalapeno peppers picked from the farm since our daughter Alexis loves hot peppers as much as us. The taste of our own prepared peppers is out of this world. There is nothing at the grocery store that compares in taste and texture with our own peppers at a fraction of price that you pay at the store.
The kids don't care what we have them pick as long as we take them with us at the farm and let them take the tractor ride. We end-up canning about 20 lbs of eggplants and 70 lbs of peppers of various kind every year. We had introduced some of our neighbors and friends to our tradition and they all love it.
Fall 2013: Tractor pulls the kids to the fields
