FIGJAM is lovely, just ask me…
We’ve canned so many figs this year, it’s ridiculous. While we don’t have a tree (yet), our neighbor has the most gigantic fig tree I’ve ever seen, and it produces thousands and thousands of figs every year. He puts a sign out for anybody in the neighborhood to have as many as they want, and people will harvest them from July until the end of the summer.
Made it back to the market again and brought home a couple pints.
Sad, sad figs. No longer sweet, a morose epicurean dream.
sigh
How much are you folks paying for figs? There’s only one stand at the market that sells them here and they’re $1 EACH. They are in great condition though.
I was paying $2.50 a pint. Now I’m paying with tears.
My stand charges $2.50 a pound.
When I ordered some wasabi peanuts a while back, These caught my eye. Any experience?
Based on this thread I bought some black California mission figs last night. The first two were kinda meh, but then I had a third and it was much riper and juicier. My son and step daughter not too impressed. My son spit one out in my hand. Oh, well he tried it, at leat, and all the more for me.
They are SO good. They don’t last very long, at least not without crystallizing, which changes the texture. I feel a bit guilty, ordering Turkish figs when CA has such a great fig industry (I live in the Bay Area), but they are just completely different.
Darling husband bought me a biiiig box of maybe 40 figs from Trader Joe’s. Delicious, almost all perfectly ripe. I’m on fig overload right now.
A friend has a fig tree and occasionally we trade fresh eggs for figs. We always slice them, put them in a bowl topped with soft goat cheese and a drizzle of honey.
Thanks, I had forgotten posting in this thread and didn’t want your reply to go without acknowledging it.
I’ll give them a shot, maybe with a little slightly funky cheese.
I discovered fresh figs this summer thanks to my new roommate. First she bought green, then black. I’ve always loved newtons, but fresh gigs are awesome.
When I lived on an organic hippy vegetable farm in Humbolt county back in the '90s, I discovered figs. Ripe, juicy, glorious figs. Figs oozing nectar. Figs that curl your toes and make you want to smoke a cigarette after, hmmm figs!