Comments on: Simple Pleasures: Fresh Figs

By: jo

jo — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:26:14 +0000

Yea ummm tuck some goat cheese in the fig and THEN wrap it in pig products. Mmmm Hmmmm

By: Lulu Barbarian

Lulu Barbarian — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:32:07 +0000

With the unripe figs you can make a spoon sweet:

http://mamastaverna.com/baby-fig-spoon-sweet-sikalaki-gliko/

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Mussels Grilled On A Barbecue | Nose To Tail At Home — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:42:54 +0000

[...] thinking about an update over on Hank Shaw’s blog about wrapping ripe figs in prosciutto and then grilling them.Â I mentally added prosciutto to my shopping [...]

By: hank

hank — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:57:33 +0000

Kelly: You pick figs when they are almost ripe. There are green figs, so unless you know which variety you have, squeeze one gently that kinda looks ripe — if it is squooshy (technical term), take a bite and see.

Figs will ripen a bit off the tree, so you can pick while you still see a little bit of green still. But they should be almost totally purple…if they are purple figs.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:20:26 +0000

Our fig tree is producing like crazy this year, but they’re all still green. When do I pick them?

By: elgin

elgin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:51:31 +0000

wow, fig trees. makes me want to move to california!

By: Sam Sotiropoulos

Sam Sotiropoulos — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:06:51 +0000

You can try making syka moustomena which is figs in grape must sauce, but you need to dry them for that…

By: hank

hank — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:16:26 +0000

I really like the idea of pairing them with blue cheese! Can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that. And Peter, I have made — and plan to make again — a small batch of fig jam. I am just not a huge user of jams or jellies, so one batch will be more than enough for us.

The idea of pistachios, ricotta and Greek honey sounds like my kind of dessert, Genevelyn!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:40:42 +0000

Figs. Not fair. Just. Not. Fair.