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6:40 am
May 20, 2011
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As a child I remember my Dad always planting Fig trees. Short walks with my Dad to check out the figs and he delighted in showing me how to eat them fresh off the tree. Mom would row her eyes and turn away, it was fun, and my Dad would laugh.
Dad even brought a fig tree to be planted when my youngness daughter was born. We all enjoyed the figs. I took both my girls out to the tree and we all enjoyed the Figs right off the tree. GREAT TIMES.
So I will have 5 gals of Figs arriving today. I can hardly waite to eat one out of the bucket, guess they'll come in a bucket. I am prepared. I have found my Mom's fig cake receipe, I checked with "splenda" and yes simple suryp can be made , so I think I can, can some of my figs, if I can keep from eating them all myself. But here's the question I am pondering – Other ways to store and use Figs. Suggestion Please. <img class="sfsmiley" title="fork" onclick="sfjLoadSmiley('fork.gif', 'fork', 'http://chickensintheroad.com/w…..eys/', '
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8:26 am
November 15, 2010
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My favourite way to use figs is to roast them with pork. They go soooo well with apples, that a chunky apple and fig chutney would be heavenly.
To me, that is the perfect autumn or winter meal….loin of pork, apple and fig sauce with mashed root veg. Really really easy to do, but it is the stuff of high-end restaurants.
12:24 pm
June 1, 2011
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I'm just jealous of your 5 gal of figs!! Wow, what a bounty! My aunts and grandma use to can a fake strawberry jam with figs and strawberry jello. The recipe made the rounds in our little town, but as a kid I wondered why cover up the flavor of the figs?
(Got my fingers crossed I can snag some local figs. People around here tend to let the birds have 'em, no one cans anymore.)
12:59 pm
May 3, 2011
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Liz you and I are of the same mind. My aunt had a huge tree in Memphis and made fig
preserves with strawberry jello. I like them plain…just off the tree or in jam….YUM
4:45 pm
December 14, 2010
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I am very bold about knocking on doors and asking if they plan to harvest the fruit growing on that tree in their yard. Most often I am invited to take all I want. When I lived in Gulfport for one summer the fig tree bore fruit and my wife made preserves just as you would strawberry preserves. No added pectin or other jelling ingredients.
5:31 pm
June 1, 2011
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Ross said:
I am very bold about knocking on doors and asking if they plan to harvest the fruit growing on that tree in their yard.
After this busy week, there's a house on the next street with an apple tree that has more apples then leaves, I've never seen one so loaded. Will be asking for those apples, and offer some homemade apple butter in trade. I'm not above asking either. Now hoping I can find some figs like that!
6:00 pm
April 20, 2011
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How wonderful to have an abundance of figs. My aunt used to candy them. I wish I could remember how she did that. I googled and there are many recipes out there. Also dehydrating would be great. Like the idea of fig preserves, yum.
8:11 pm
August 29, 2008
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http://heidiannie.com/2010/01/…..recipes/ I love f.r.o.g. jam- figs, raspberries, oranges, and ginger are the fruits and flavor. Also- here's a recipe for fig and hazelnut bread-
http://heidiannie.com/2011/05/…..t-bread/ – I wish I had a couple of buckets of fresh figs. I think I would eat most of them fresh. Let me know if you like the jam or bread!
2:59 pm
June 1, 2011
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My "luxury food" is figs and cream, or figs and 1/2 & 1/2. It's a once a year treat. Almost bought some last week, but it was $7 for 4 figs and I just balked. . . couldn't make myself pay that much for a once a year treat.
Judi
5:04 pm
May 20, 2011
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I ate a few of my figs, they are great. canned half, and we'll try and finish the rest tonight. Candied- sounds really good too. then it may be pears to deal with, I have a pear cake recp that's realy good too.Thanks for all the suggestion.
9:36 pm
July 24, 2010
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Judi,
I've not tried figs and cream–I'll be stopping at the market on the way home tomorrow. I picked another gallon tonight, sure do wish I could send you some!
11:54 am
June 1, 2011
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Judy, I wish you could too! I hope you like the figs/cream…
My Dad was born in L.A. in 1898, (his momma raised chickens in what's now downtown). He knew where to find fig trees and other such from old farms, homes, etc. He never grew figs. Every now and then he'd come home with some and we'd have 'em with cream.
There were fig trees at a boarding school I went to briefly. The other kids thought I was odd for eating the fruit; I did it anyway!
Judi
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