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 ...

The good thing about this time of year: It’s fig season. The bad thing about this time of year for me: I only ever do one thing with figs — make preserves. Occasionally, I use those preserves to make ...

Featuring fig jam, dried figs, and fresh figs (for those glorious few weeks when they’re in season), our best fig recipes earn rave reviews. Bake up a batch of fig bars or a fig cake recipe ...

On my parents’ property in Clarkston, there used to be an enormous, rambling fig tree. It sprouted up as a “volunteer” (the word my mother uses for things that aren’t planted, but somehow arrive ...

I am certainly not the first person to derive inspiration from a fig tree. The ancients wrote poetry and sang songs about figs; Buddha attained enlightenment while sitting under a fig tree; and fig ...

The good thing about this time of year: It's fig season. The bad thing about this time of year for me: I only ever do one thing with figs-make preserves. Occasionally, I use those preserves to make ...

Figs — in all shapes, colors and sizes — are ripening all over the South. And what memories these oh-so-delicious fruits bring to mind. As a kid, I would crawl under the canopy of my grandmother’s ...

If anyone has fresh figs for sale, Coastians are clamoring for them. A fellow reader called Lynette Faul of Gulfport wanting figs. Unfortunately, Faul says the only figs left on her tree are green ...

Marian Denton misses the fig trees. She grew up in the country in what is now southeast Houston. Her father, Raymond Joachim, planted five kinds of fig trees in their black-gumbo back yard. He added ...