As you may know I’ve been having an organic box of produce delivered every other week. My hope was in addition to getting fresh, yummy produce I would receive some new things that I normally would not have come home with from the grocery store or farmers market. Well, up until last week, I think I had received some pretty basic things. Different varieties of fruits and veggies, but nothing too new, right? I am asking because I don’t remember. 
I am thinking I did receive something else I hadn’t had before, but I can’t remember what it was. Oh, except those Shishito peppers that did end up being thrown away. After I tasted one every time I just looked at the container I felt like I needed something to drink to get that bitter taste out of my mouth so I couldn’t bring myself to cook them. In my last box I received a container of beautiful figs. Mission figs. I remember I tried some figs last November. I remember it was November because we had gathered to watch V for Vendetta and one of the snacks was figs on goat cheese. I don’t remember have eaten figs before because they just seemed icky to me. I think I had only been presented with dried figs and I don’t like dried fruit. I actually KNEW I didn’t like figs because of fig newtons. Now, I know that a fig newton really isn’t a fig and I should have not based my liking of the fruit on such a thing, but I had. So here I was with a container of figs. I had no idea what to do with them. What do you do with a fig?
So I asked a few people. Believe it or not their response was the same, “Just eat ’em.” Um . . . no thanks. My husband likes to just eat them and he ate one. When I told him I didn’t know what to do with them he said to just give him the go-ahead and he would eat them. He said they were good.
The bulk of the recipes I found online seemed to be tarts, pastries, desserts, and ooey-gooey things. And salads. Sigh. I thought I would go to the store and get some goat cheese and try making that dish that I had eaten before, but when I went to the store I found crumbled goat cheese and not a “brick” for slicing.
I can’t remember exactly, but I believe the snack was a piece of fig on top of a slice of goat cheese, with honey drizzled on it. Really rich, but very yummy. Kind of desserty.
I was happy and excited I received something I hadn’t had before, but I was stumped as to what to do with it/them. Even though I bragged about Farm Fresh To You having recipes on their site, I kept forgetting to look at it.
Do you like figs? How do you eat them? Do you know a savory dish that uses figs?
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