All posts filed under: fresh figs

Honeyed Fig and Feta French Toast

Last week, figs made an unexpected appearance at the grocery store.  I was pretty sure that last year, the figs didn’t arrive until late August, early September, so I was a little bit dubious about such an early arrival.  But, since figs are one of those, here-and-gone-in-a-minute kinds of fruits, I just had to buy some just in case they were in season and I had my dates wrong!  It turns out that California fig season started a little early this year because of a very warm winter.  Figs have a very short shelf life which I found out first hand when I opened the box two days later and saw that some of them had already begun to mold! So, with a fire lit under me I knew I had to do something with them immediately.  I opened the refrigerator and the ingredients appeared to me like the digital rain of the Matrix! Bread–got it! milk, eggs, fresh blueberries and what have we here…ah, a chunk of feta cheese! Yep.  Feta cheese.  Now some of you might be thinking that sounds like crazy talk, …

Fig and Prosciutto Flatbread with Caramelized Onions and Balsamic Reduction

Remember the pizza dough recipe from last month? Well, since that recipe makes about three to four pizzas,  I froze the extra dough for later use and made a fortuitous discovery!  After thawing the dough and allowing it to come to room temperature, I was able to roll it out into a very thin crust that after baking, came out crispy and light–more like a flatbread than the chewier crust of the initial fresh batch of dough.  This is a great thing, as I love crisp flatbread, and I had just the right toppings for it.  You see, I had ventured to Whole Foods market last weekend to buy the fresh mushrooms for the Sizzling Mushrooms With Sage and Thyme and the first thing I saw was a display of black mission figs on sale for $2.99 per pint!  I was so excited to finally see figs in season that I immediately bought a pint without a second thought.   Now, I think figs are some of the most inspiring fruits–beautiful and exotic, they are subtly sweet, juicy, and …