Fresh fig recipes Fig jams and preserves are easy to make and a great way to use up the summer harvest. (Photo by Ann Maloney, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) I was inspired by Dennis Bickham of ...

Fig Pecan Fondue: Combine ½ cup white wine, ½ cup fig preserves, ¼ cup ground, toasted pecans and 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice in a medium saucepan.

Southern fig cake and old-fashioned fig preserves Eating fresh figs is so sensual that it practically makes me blush. But if you're lucky enough to have a glut of these beauties, here are some ...

Sun Herald readers shared their recipes for fig jam, fig conserve and pork chops with fresh figs. The jam and conserve have a different touch with the addition of raisins.

Fresh figs, like a lot of life’s pleasures, are fleeting, and shouldn’t be squandered. They’re versatile in salads, made into jams and preserves or wrapped with prosciutto.

The no-churn recipe features vanilla ice cream layered with homemade strawberry jam and fig preserves. If you want to make an expat Southern country girl cry, just mention fresh figs as they are ...

Fig Pecan Fondue: Combine 1/2 cup white wine, 1/2 cup fig preserves, 1/4 cup ground, toasted pecans and 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice in a medium saucepan.

For my preserves, I used a ratio of ¾ cups of sugar for every one cup of fresh figs. It was work. But, then, it’s just what you do. After all, it's figs, and they really are delicious.

Later that fall, she sent fruitcakes that included fig preserves as one of her multitude of ingredients. Lately I’ve been delighted to find fresh California figs in stores here in the Corridor.

They need 1 to 1 1/2 inches of water each week. Figs also respond well to mulching. Whether you enjoy eating them fresh or making preserves, fig are a great summer treat.

She had fig preserves bubbling on the stove and fresh peas with bacon cooking on the back burner. She said the peas would have been great if she had okra to put in them.

Just about everybody in our neighborhood has fig trees, and a week or so before the Fourth of July, they were up in arms. The figs were late in ripening!