What's your favorite thing to do with fresh figs?

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It seems to be Fig Season ™. A neighbor’s tree down the street looks like it’s covered with Christmas ornaments, and this morning, a co-worker brought in a huge bowlful of fresh figs, free for the sharing. I’d like to play around with a few. Dunno what kind they are, precisely, but they’re small - just over an inch in diameter, much smaller than the ones I’ve seen at the store - and the ripest ones are dark purplish.

What’s the bestest thing in the whole world to do with them? A quick poke online revealed many suggestions for stuffing them with goat cheeseand/or wrapping them with bacon and broiling, but these guys are so little I’m not sure that will work.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Bonus points if you can tell me how to involve bacon and/or goat chees with figs this small.

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Fresh figurines, straight from the blister pack? I prep them first, filing off any flash or leftover casting marks. Then do any assembly necessary, then prime them. The primer color depends on whether I want it to be a “dark” or “light” fig.

Then I paint them.

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I paint “figs.” Figurines.

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Properly ripened figs don’t need anything done to them, just eat them.

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I like what Pizza Express (a chain restaurent in the UK - don’t know if it operates elsewhere) does:

“Baby figs in a cinnamon and white wine spiced syrup
with a dollop of mascarpone.”

If that’s too much work: just the mascarpone.

Still too much work: what outlierrn said.

Figs. Yum. Might have to go and get me some now.

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My favorite way to eat fresh figs is to cram them into my face as quickly as possible.

Sometimes, I may accompany them with paper-thin slices of prosciutto.

Cook them? Why?

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This.

There’s other things you can do with them, but if they’re fresh and ripe and delicious, there’s nothing better than just eating them like a monkey as fast as you can.

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Fig and orange jam. Figgy pudding is some seriously good shit.

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Figure out a way to make “Newtons” with them.

And then send them to me.

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Yep. Why mess with perfection?

I think that fresh figs cost about $6 a pound at our local organic foods market (and are not available elsewhere). Enjoy your bounty.

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Eat them. As is. Yum.

If you can’t eat them all, freeze them.

Recipe suggestion - Upscale grill cheese - goat cheese and sliced figs on the best bread you can find. Butter, not margarine.

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This!

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When in season here (NZ) I generally eat them straight off the tree.

They are also good with sweetened Greek style yoghurt.

I have made jam in th epast but I’m the only one in my family who likes it.

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Cream cheese and figs on a croissant.

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This without the Newtonizing.

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What do you do with frozen figs once you thaw them?

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Yep. 'Cause the season’s short and if you delay your fig-gorging orgy, you’ll be out of luck.

A produce stand near here sells a type of fig which is superior to any others I’ve eaten. It’s the striped tiger, or panache, fig. It’s prettily striped in green and yellow on the outside, and the insides look like strawberry jam. It’s quite sweet, yet it has the slightest tang of acid. They should be coming in pretty soon, around August or so. I always buy pounds of them!

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Some discussion with the Other Shoe ensued, and I’ll be stopping for prosciutto on my way home from work. Yum…

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In a salad with goat cheese and balsamic vinegar.

Or, as stated above, just eat them as-is.