Posts Tagged ‘figs’

Bacon, Brunch, Food & Travel, Recipes, Starters

So, while contemplating how I was going to use the delicate squid ink vermicelli, salts, unusual rices, dried mushrooms, tinned anchovies and the hoard of really lovely chocolate (oh, that required much deep and meaningful contemplation), as well as relate the culinary tales of trotting and discovery, I needed an afternoon snack.
Step in, plump ripe figs, sweet and succulent, sprinkled with Spanish pepper smoked salt, extra virgin olive oil, a blob of fresh ricotta cheese, baked and then topped with crispy bacon bits.

Recipes, Salad & Snacks

Tempt Me Touch me: it is softness of good satin, and when you open me, what an unexpected rose!                                                                                    Gabriella Mistral, The Fig The Fig. Much has been said, much has been alluded. It’s leaves, the symbol of modesty and a repentant shame. The fruit, a plump pear-bottomed drop, aligning to the male form from the [...]

Hands on, Review, The Fabulous

Figs and Witblitz- a decadent weekend away Having read through the African Relish cookery class schedule, I knew that this had to be the weekend that I attended- it was the only course for the year featuring fresh figs, which I simply adore. I have been purchasing the sweet, forbidden beauties religiously all summer and [...]