So many recipes, so little time!
I thought a good way to keep track of all the gorgeous recipes I find everyday at my favourite food blogs was to start posting a weekly round up featuring a theme ingredient.
That way I can share my discoveries with you and save a load of bookmarks for myself. Clever, huh?
If you (or I) ever want to find a particular archived ingredient in this series, the nifty little search bar in the top right hand corner will prove very helpful.
This week’s ingredient is FIGS.
Can you believe that I haven’t posted a single fig recipe? Shame on me *slaps hand*. Perhaps this list of delicious recipes will spur me on to actually share a fig recipe in the near future. That is, if I can stop shoving them down my throat long enough to photograph them!
Here we go:
- Fig Balsamic Sauce is one of the best uses for figs I have ever seen! That wonderful White On Rice Couple sure are clever. It’s perfect for drizzling over cheese which is another one of my favourite things!
- My deep love of Arnotts Fruit Pillows makes this Fig Bar recipe from LemonPi high up there on my to-do list.
- Wild Fig and Rose Ice cream, need I say more? The lovely Not Quite Nigella (she’s better!) has done it again.
- I’m not usually a pizza fan, but Jaden at Steamy Kitchen’s Warm Fig, Apple and Gorgonzola flat bread is something super special indeed.
- Jane Spice, you have my heart with your delicious Fig and Polenta Cake with Cinnamon.
- I could eat Allen’s Cinnamon Fig Jam all day long… and it’s another great accompaniment for cheese!
- Baked Figs with Mozarella from Peter at Souvlaki for the Soul is a fabulous combination.
- I think these Fig, Pear and Bacon Wraps from What’s For Lunch Honey? would be oh-so-good with a crispy confit duck leg, don’t you?
Have you got a favourite fig recipe? Leave me a link in the comments.
Happy eating, Christie
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Would love a vote if you get a chance. Go on, I’ll be your best friend…. 
12 responses so far ↓
1 Peter G // Nov 10, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Hey Christie! Thanks for the shout out! This is a great little summary. I vote for Meeta.
2 Lorraine E // Nov 10, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Thanks Christie! I think you’d definitely love the ice cream. And it seems fitting that your first round up would include figs
3 Reemski // Nov 11, 2008 at 11:47 am
ooh, friend made figs wrapped in prosciutto grilled then drizzled with balsamic for nibbles the other day at lunch. Oh my god, I was stuffing my face!
4 Joie de vivre // Nov 12, 2008 at 8:43 am
What a great idea to have a favorite recipe roundup. So simple and brilliant. I am jealous of your fresh figs. Figs don’t grow in my area and I haven’t had a fresh one in years!
5 Choosy Beggar Tina // Nov 12, 2008 at 1:24 pm
My two figgy favorites from this year are Fig and Rosemary Tart and Lamb with goat cheese and figs
6 michelle @ TNS // Nov 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm
ooh, i don’t like to actually eat figs - it’s a texture thing - but i could all over that fig balsamic sauce like…well, like white on rice.
7 Y // Nov 12, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Oh you’ve just reminded me about that ice-cream Lorraine posted about. I still want to make it one day…
8 taste memory girl // Nov 13, 2008 at 4:29 am
the wild fig + rose ice cream sounds enticing! figs are perfectly gorgeous & delicious. I love them fresh with granola as posted recently *breakfast beauty + memory of light*. am bummed that fig season is leaving us…..
9 Kim // Nov 14, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Figs are my favorite fruit, so your list is great. I have been on a macaron kick and so I am working on a Fig Macaron.
10 michelle // Nov 15, 2008 at 7:32 am
Oh lord, you are a woman after my heart! I knew you LIKED figs (hence the name of the blog, eh?), but a roundup of fig recipes?!! xoxoxo
11 Neroli Blossom // Nov 25, 2008 at 9:30 pm
A sneaky treat: organic dried figs, topped with marinated fetta - too good.
12 Donna // Aug 20, 2009 at 6:42 am
Incredibly simple, but incredibly delicious -
3 cups tawny port
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
1 bag of dried figs
Steep everything together - magic happens when this is poured over vanilla ice cream!
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