Tu b'Shevat

For Tu b'Shevat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees, which started last night at sunset, we hosted a dinner party with a fruit course. I'm pretty sure there are some rules and some ritual one can do, but I wanted to keep it low key. So we went to the co-op and bought all the fruit that looked interesting, which given the the time of year was mostly dried fruit. Then I severed it all with cheese and bread as first course as people were arriving.

We had:
Dried figs
Pink navel oranges
Raisins
Banana chips
Dried pineapple rings
Fig jam
Blood orange nectarine conserve