Figs

[Lullabelle]

Dates are better than figs. Medjool natch.

I prefer dates to figs

 

[Ganymede]

[QUOTE 3255430, member: 259"]Strange. We've been getting a ton of nice ripe figs on our tree this year, and it's the wettest, coldest summer for yonks.[/QUOTE]
Monty Don on Gardener's World said it was a good year for figs. It was the July heat that brought them on.

I tried to grow a tree but it didn't take - I must try again, I love fresh figs to an almost sinful extent. @Marmion, you are entering a whole new world of pleasure. If you get bored with eating them fresh, try cutting them in half and frying them in butter. Sprinkle a little sugar in the pan and allow to caramelise. Maybe squeeze in a little fresh orange juice. For anyone who has only ever eaten dried figs, the fresh ones are like heaven on a stick.

And quite rude too, of course. See DH Lawrence.

 

[Ganymede]

In Italian, the word for a fruit tree is usually masculine, and the word for the fruit is usually feminine. However, the word "la fica" is considered so explicit that it is the only fruit which takes the masculine in Italian (source: Jane Grigson's Fruit Book).

 

[ufkacbln]

Will they be a regular thing for you now?

If I can find them then I'll buy them - I have seen them on TV cookery programmes but never seen them in shops so had not paid attention as to what to do with them, I didnae even know that you could eat the whole fig and had thought it was only the inside.

I think that was a Bowel reference?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3255438, member: 259"]Even nicer with ham! [/QUOTE]

Not quite so middle-class though. Innit.

 

[Dayvo]

Just. Don't. Eat. Too. Many. In. One. Sitting!

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 3255438, member: 259"]Even nicer with ham! [/QUOTE]
You mean Hami don't you?

 

[User169]

Monty Don on Gardener's World said it was a good year for figs. e.

amazingstoker! conflabs over our fig harvest is deffo the sort of thing us 'stokers cant get enough of.

 

[ayceejay]

Many moons past I was traveling in Greece and I came upon a fruit market with fresh figs on offer. I could read the price (not very much) but couldn't understand the quantity it related to so I just pointed and grunted and ended up with a kilogram of delicious green figs in a bag, I ate them all in one sitting. The after effect was amazing - my skin was clear and I felt as light as a feather - in fact now I think of it I 'dispensed' with them in one sitting too.

 

[ttcycle]

Ahhh love a fresh fig!! The dried ones do not compare.

Last year, I went to visit my best mate in Galicia, Spain and went on a three hour walk around the mountains specifically to pick wild figs off the trees.

Smelt delicious and have not tasted any like them since. A good number of them went into a jam that they could eat over winter.

Earlier this year, cycled past a London fig tree and saw loads of sad looking shrunken things scattered all over the floor...

 

[theclaud]

Not quite so middle-class though. Innit.

It's the sort of agonizing dilemma that faced by the McGinty household every day - Medjool dates wrapped in parma ham or figs with mascarpone?

 

[Fab Foodie]

It's the sort of agonizing dilemma that faced by the McGinty household every day - Medjool dates wrapped in parma ham or figs with mascarpone?

.... and they end-up with Cheese and Pineapple on a stick just the same .....

 

[threebikesmcginty]

.... and they end-up with Cheese and Pineapple on a stick just the same .....

Now you're talking.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Now you're talking.

Real Pineapple or fromma tin, properlike?

 

[Slim]

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Earlier this year, cycled past a London fig tree and saw loads of sad looking shrunken things scattered all over the floor...

There used to be a large fig tree right next to the National Gallery on Trafalgar square. In the summer there was always loads of fruit on it.