My neighbors have a couple of giant fig trees and they're letting me pick them while they're on a week long vacation.  There are sooooo many figs! I've been eating them fresh, yum!, making fig smoothies, I'm making 'fig newtons' later today, but there's still more figs!  I looked through the tags, but didn't find much (other than suggestions to ( Read more... )

I seem to be going through a baking extravaganza of late.

This past summer, I picked up a bottle each of rosewater and orange blossom water just to have on hand. And for a work potluck, I decided to put them to good use. I adapted the Pistachio Rosewater Cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World to make pistachio-free rosewater and - ( Read more... )

my main squeeze and i joined a csa recently and have been having experimenting with all kinds of new things. this was the first week that we got figs, which i've never done anything with before. the csa included a recipe for fig and peach tart, which i messed around with a bit and got this incredibly delicious recipe ( Read more... )

I was recently given a bag full of fresh figs. I'm not really keen on just eating them as is, so was wondering if anyone had some recipes/ideas on what to do with the figs. I generally prefer savory dishes as I'm not really a desert/sweets person.

Thanks for your help!!!

I have 4 fresh turkish figs. And I have no idea what to do with them. Suggestions please? :)

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