So, a cool actor friend of mine came by today to drop off his taped audition for Teenage Dirtbag (he’s in rehearsal tomorrow night and can’t make it to the preread) and brought me a bag of organically grown goodies!
I hadn’t planned on posting about it, but the tomato I had with dinner was so yummy that I had to brag about my friend’s garden (especially after I saw Jocelyn’s post about gifts of fruit.
So in developing this post, I realized I had a very important question, because I have no idea how to even approach the figs John brought over. How does one eat a fig? Cut into it and then spoon out the inside? Peel and eat? Simmer with butter? What? I think I’ve only ever had dried figs or newtoned figs, so I don’t know how to begin here.
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You can eat them with the skin on or peeled, it’s a matter of taste and texture. Eat them as is or:
1. Baked until just softened.
2. Slice them open and stuff with mascarpone.
3. Wrap in pancetta and fry until the pancetta is crisp. (Some people use proscuitto, but pancetta is the way to go).
4. Slice figs in half. Top with goat cheese and drizzle with honey. Optional: Add pecans to the goat cheese.
Baking and frying condenses the sugars in the figs making them, even yummier.
That was, by the way, four different ways to eat them, not four steps to make one fig dish.
I also appear, to have an, affliction of, commas.
I’ve always eaten them plain or in preserves, but I love the sound of Bryan’s ideas. Enjoy!
Oh how yum!
just wash and eat…to me, if figs are the perfect ripeness, there is nothing better than eating them just the way they are…enjoy!