Fresh figs

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So he ate them fresh? I got some fresh ones and thought I
would dry them. Guess what they attracted????

Do I win something if I guess this correctly? (laughing) Fruit flies?

Most likely came with the fruit fly eggs. I have to wash off all
fruit I bring into the house, before storing.

nancy

Boron Elgar said:

Figs are wonderful with a nice chunk of stinky cheese, too, such as
Stilton.

That hadn't occurred to me, so on reading that I went to the kitchen
and had a fresh fig with a big chunk of Stilton.

Heaven! A new snack sensation. Thanks.

When I think of cheese and something sweet, it's usually quince jam
or paste, and having just flown from Australia to the US and return,
I must have had that combination in flight six times in a week.

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Craig

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I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton,
what the heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems
to me people are always swooning over fresh figs.

Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things
and I will never ever try them again (stamping foot).

Nancy - I don't care for figs of any kind - bleuch! However, the fresh ones,
as a flavour ingredient, can be really good indeed! Just as long as you
don't get any of those blasted little devil seeds in too...

',;~}~

Shaun aRe

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> I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton,
> what the heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems
> to me people are always swooning over fresh figs.
>
> Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things
> and I will never ever try them again (stamping foot).
>

Don't give up! Lots of indifferent and just plain bad figs are sold,
but a good one is a real treat.

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I had to get the taste out of my mouth with a nice date.

nancy

Ooooh! Fresh dates are to die for! A co-worker, Milind, was always after

me

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to try whatever snacks he had brought to work that day. He'd call me on

the

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phone, Jill, can you come by my desk? One day he had a bag of fresh dates
AND ghee... he dipped a date in the ghee and said "try this". I thought

I'd

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gone to heaven. Fantastic! Thanks, Milind!

Jill

You mean fresh, green dates? - YES! To die for indeed - we can get them here
in some of the Asian grocers in season, but not often enough for me, so if I
miss the timing, they sell out fast and that's me without for another
year....

I use them, along with fresh mango, lime juice, fresh figs and sea salt to
make a delicious, fruity hot-sauce, in fact. Oh, the figs don;t go straight
in - they get processed first so the seeds are removed. Can't stand those
li'l seeds...

I actually have 2 quite big bottles of that sauce here on my work-bench to
send to a couple of friends in the US that post here (you should know who
you are! Sorry I haven't sent yet!) - I just have to get round to it! I'm
sure when they try it they'll be able to back me up as to it's gorgeous
flavour, heh...

Cheers!

Shaun aRe who's chile plants now almost all have fruits on, and who tried
his first (ever!) fatali at the w/e - unripe (knocked it off by accident),
but full of flavour and heat!

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I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton, what the
heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems to me people are
always swooning over fresh figs.

Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things and I will
never ever try them again (stamping foot).

Nancy - I don't care for figs of any kind - bleuch! However, the fresh
ones, as a flavour ingredient, can be really good indeed! Just as long
as you don't get any of those blasted little devil seeds in too...

',;~}~

I love the crunch of the seeds, Shaun!

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four,
unless there are three other people.

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I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton, what the
heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems to me people are
always swooning over fresh figs.

Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things and I will
never ever try them again (stamping foot).

Nancy - I don't care for figs of any kind - bleuch! However, the fresh
ones, as a flavour ingredient, can be really good indeed! Just as long
as you don't get any of those blasted little devil seeds in too...

',;~}~

I love the crunch of the seeds, Shaun!

This is the thing, isn't it? - One person's bug is another's feature ',;~}~

My wife Kath loves figs too - her mum brings back heaps of fig products from
Portugal for her about 2 x a year. Like huge cakes of mashed together fig
with almond slivers on top. Makes me wanna hurl just thinking about them
though, heheheh...

Shaun aRe

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> I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton, what
> the heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems to me people
> are always swooning over fresh figs.
>
> Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things and I
> will never ever try them again (stamping foot).

Nancy - I don't care for figs of any kind - bleuch! However, the
fresh ones, as a flavour ingredient, can be really good indeed! Just
as long as you don't get any of those blasted little devil seeds in
too...

',;~}~

I love the crunch of the seeds, Shaun!

This is the thing, isn't it? - One person's bug is another's feature
',;~}~

Sorta like, "One man's meat is another man's poison!".

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My wife Kath loves figs too - her mum brings back heaps of fig products
from Portugal for her about 2 x a year. Like huge cakes of mashed
together fig with almond slivers on top. Makes me wanna hurl just
thinking about them though, heheheh...

Oh, I envy that!

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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unless there are three other people.

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> "Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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>> I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton, what
>> the heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems to me people
>> are always swooning over fresh figs.
>>
>> Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things and I
>> will never ever try them again (stamping foot).
>
> Nancy - I don't care for figs of any kind - bleuch! However, the
> fresh ones, as a flavour ingredient, can be really good indeed! Just
> as long as you don't get any of those blasted little devil seeds in
> too...
>
> ',;~}~

I love the crunch of the seeds, Shaun!

This is the thing, isn't it? - One person's bug is another's feature
',;~}~

Sorta like, "One man's meat is another man's poison!".

Yeah but I like mine better so NER.

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My wife Kath loves figs too - her mum brings back heaps of fig products
from Portugal for her about 2 x a year. Like huge cakes of mashed
together fig with almond slivers on top. Makes me wanna hurl just
thinking about them though, heheheh...

Oh, I envy that!

Seems they love the things in the areas she visits - stalls loaded with
nothing but fig products. Thing is, they have flat round ones, sausage roll
shaped ones, ball shaped ones - all sorts, called by different names. BUT,
they're all just mashed damned figs, just different shapes! Bloody forners
are weird I tell ya... heheheh...

',;~}~

Shaun aRe - I wanna visit for the fish dishes myself!

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My wife Kath loves figs too - her mum brings back heaps of fig products from
Portugal for her about 2 x a year. Like huge cakes of mashed together fig
with almond slivers on top. Makes me wanna hurl just thinking about them
though, heheheh...

Shaun aRe

Ick. Those things bear as much resemblance to fresh figs as
prunes do to plums or raisins to grapes. I've had fresh figs in
Portugal and they were ambrosial. Those dried "fig products"
are nasty, IMO.

gloria p

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My wife Kath loves figs too - her mum brings back heaps of fig products
from
Portugal for her about 2 x a year. Like huge cakes of mashed together fig
with almond slivers on top. Makes me wanna hurl just thinking about them
though, heheheh...

Shaun aRe

Ick. Those things bear as much resemblance to fresh figs as
prunes do to plums or raisins to grapes. I've had fresh figs in Portugal
and they were ambrosial. Those dried "fig products"
are nasty, IMO.

gloria p

There is a 'fig cake with almonds' being sold at Wegman's. It is very dry.
It looks like actual whole figs have been pressed/mashed together strongly
enough to remain mashed together. I can't recall whether the almonds are
pressed just on top of the 'cake' or there are some intertwined with the
layers of figs. I think it is about $9 a lb.,not certain.
I love figs, but this is not too tasty. But I ate it all because it was a
gift.

A half-hour ago I opened a jar of Orange & Figs (It was either
Jam/Preserves/Marmelade very thick) made from 'Dalmation Figs' that I bought
at BJ's. I had made a Irish Soda Bread recipe from 'Baking with Julia' last
night, so I toasted a slice and spread a heapin' spoonful of this
marmelade/jam on top. Heaven. It was not at all sweet and the orange in it
was only a hint. Oh, so very good.
Dee Dee

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from

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Portugal for her about 2 x a year. Like huge cakes of mashed together

fig

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with almond slivers on top. Makes me wanna hurl just thinking about them
though, heheheh...

Shaun aRe

Ick. Those things bear as much resemblance to fresh figs as
prunes do to plums or raisins to grapes.

Indeed, but they are not pretending to be fresh figs!

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I've had fresh figs in
Portugal and they were ambrosial. Those dried "fig products"
are nasty, IMO.

gloria p

I just don't like figs at all, except for in my fruit based hot sauces.

Shaun aRe

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fig

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with almond slivers on top. Makes me wanna hurl just thinking about

them

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though, heheheh...

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Ick. Those things bear as much resemblance to fresh figs as
prunes do to plums or raisins to grapes. I've had fresh figs in

Portugal

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and they were ambrosial. Those dried "fig products"
are nasty, IMO.

gloria p

There is a 'fig cake with almonds' being sold at Wegman's. It is very

dry.

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It looks like actual whole figs have been pressed/mashed together strongly
enough to remain mashed together. I can't recall whether the almonds are
pressed just on top of the 'cake' or there are some intertwined with the
layers of figs.

That sounds exactly like what I was talking about.

Shaun aRe

Nancy Young said:

I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton,
what the heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems
to me people are always swooning over fresh figs.

Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things
and I will never ever try them again (stamping foot).

Odds are your figs weren't ripe... underipe figs are awful.

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Hope the birds like the figs.

Birds love figs too much.

---> http://www.californiafigs.com

Sheldon

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I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton,
what the heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems
to me people are always swooning over fresh figs.

Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things
and I will never ever try them again (stamping foot).

Don't give up! Lots of indifferent and just plain bad figs are sold, but a
good one is a real treat. With prosciutto de Parma it is heavenly.

You know, perhaps if I find myself in some kind of restaurant
that offered it, I would try it ... I don't know, really, what it's
supposed to be like and I wouldn't know how to pick a good
one. Obviously.

Canned kadota figs are very nice, wonderful with vanilla ice cream.
Perhaps you should try canned first. I don't know that I'd count on a
restaurant to have good figs, often they know less about figs than you.
Appearnce says very little about figs, you really need to palpate and
sniff... unfortunately the typical green grocer would rather you don't.
I didn't care much for figs either, not until I moved to California
where many of my neighbors had fig trees. Actually it's not possible
to know if a fig is good until you split it open, but when there are so
many figs on so many trees one gets a lot of experience, so I'm well
versed, I like to eat figs from the inside out, don't care much for the
skin. Didja know that botanically figs are not a fruit...
"although considered a fruit, the fig is actually a flower that is
inverted into itself. The seeds are drupes, or the real fruit. Figs are
the only fruit to fully ripen and semi-dry on the tree."

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I really cannot describe the flavor. After I bit into the first one,
a look crossed my face, and it was explained to me that figs
are an acquired taste. You could say that. I guess. I've tried
to think how to describe the flavor ... it was like a mushy flavorless
apple that tasted bad at the same time. Like bitter. But they
were soft.

I don't think figs are an acquired taste at all, in fact ripe figs
don't have any powerful flavor other than sweet... figs are much more
an acquired textural/visual thing, each type with a markedly different
textural/visual.

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I had to get the taste out of my mouth with a nice date.

Hmmm, oboy... that's the whole idea of figs, prepares one for that
special date! 😉

Sheldon

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Nancy Young said:

"Peter Aitken" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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> I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton,
> what the heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems
> to me people are always swooning over fresh figs.
>
> Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things
> and I will never ever try them again (stamping foot).
>

Don't give up! Lots of indifferent and just plain bad figs are sold,

but a

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good one is a real treat. With prosciutto de Parma it is heavenly.

You know, perhaps if I find myself in some kind of restaurant
that offered it, I would try it ... I don't know, really, what it's
supposed to be like and I wouldn't know how to pick a good
one. Obviously.

Canned kadota figs are very nice, wonderful with vanilla ice cream.
Perhaps you should try canned first. I don't know that I'd count on a
restaurant to have good figs, often they know less about figs than you.
Appearnce says very little about figs, you really need to palpate and
sniff... unfortunately the typical green grocer would rather you don't.
I didn't care much for figs either, not until I moved to California
where many of my neighbors had fig trees. Actually it's not possible
to know if a fig is good until you split it open, but when there are so
many figs on so many trees one gets a lot of experience, so I'm well
versed, I like to eat figs from the inside out, don't care much for the
skin. Didja know that botanically figs are not a fruit...
"although considered a fruit, the fig is actually a flower that is
inverted into itself. The seeds are drupes, or the real fruit. Figs are
the only fruit to fully ripen and semi-dry on the tree."

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I really cannot describe the flavor. After I bit into the first one,
a look crossed my face, and it was explained to me that figs
are an acquired taste. You could say that. I guess. I've tried
to think how to describe the flavor ... it was like a mushy flavorless
apple that tasted bad at the same time. Like bitter. But they
were soft.

I don't think figs are an acquired taste at all, in fact ripe figs
don't have any powerful flavor other than sweet... figs are much more
an acquired textural/visual thing, each type with a markedly different
textural/visual.

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I had to get the taste out of my mouth with a nice date.

Hmmm, oboy... that's the whole idea of figs, prepares one for that
special date! 😉

You know there is that old wive's tale that eating pineapple will make a
man's semen taste "sweeter"...

BTW Sheldon this past weekend I had a house guest and per yer
recommendations here I stocked up on some Boar's Head things, e.g. bacon,
ham etc. All very good, I'll never again stoop to buying the other dreck...

--
Best
Greg

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Sheldon said:

Nancy Young said:

"Peter Aitken" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
> "Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
>> I've never had one. I've had dried figs, many a fig newton,
>> what the heck, here are little pints of mission figs. Seems
>> to me people are always swooning over fresh figs.
>>
>> Guess what? They are evil disgusting horrid little things
>> and I will never ever try them again (stamping foot).
>>
>
> Don't give up! Lots of indifferent and just plain bad figs are sold,

but a

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> good one is a real treat. With prosciutto de Parma it is heavenly.

You know, perhaps if I find myself in some kind of restaurant
that offered it, I would try it ... I don't know, really, what it's
supposed to be like and I wouldn't know how to pick a good
one. Obviously.

Canned kadota figs are very nice, wonderful with vanilla ice cream.
Perhaps you should try canned first. I don't know that I'd count on a
restaurant to have good figs, often they know less about figs than you.
Appearnce says very little about figs, you really need to palpate and
sniff... unfortunately the typical green grocer would rather you don't.
I didn't care much for figs either, not until I moved to California
where many of my neighbors had fig trees. Actually it's not possible
to know if a fig is good until you split it open, but when there are so
many figs on so many trees one gets a lot of experience, so I'm well
versed, I like to eat figs from the inside out, don't care much for the
skin. Didja know that botanically figs are not a fruit...
"although considered a fruit, the fig is actually a flower that is
inverted into itself. The seeds are drupes, or the real fruit. Figs are
the only fruit to fully ripen and semi-dry on the tree."

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I really cannot describe the flavor. After I bit into the first one,
a look crossed my face, and it was explained to me that figs
are an acquired taste. You could say that. I guess. I've tried
to think how to describe the flavor ... it was like a mushy flavorless
apple that tasted bad at the same time. Like bitter. But they
were soft.

I don't think figs are an acquired taste at all, in fact ripe figs
don't have any powerful flavor other than sweet... figs are much more
an acquired textural/visual thing, each type with a markedly different
textural/visual.

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I had to get the taste out of my mouth with a nice date.

Hmmm, oboy... that's the whole idea of figs, prepares one for that
special date! 😉

You know there is that old wive's tale that eating pineapple will make a
man's semen taste "sweeter"...

I wouldn't know, but I've been told cinnamon does the trick... I've
often been informed I taste like red hots.

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BTW Sheldon this past weekend I had a house guest and per yer
recommendations here I stocked up on some Boar's Head things, e.g. bacon,
ham etc. All very good, I'll never again stoop to buying the other dreck...

Yep, well worth the couple dollars more. Next time try the Boar's Head
mortadella, contains whole peppercorns and pistachios... very
addictive. Mortadella is in fact the original bologna, all other
bolognas pale in comparison.... and many like those 'sale deli types' I
don't consider, Oscar Meyer I don't consider edible, not even for
animals. I also recommend Boar's Head head cheese and spiced ham.
However, for great Genoa salami nothing beats Hormel's Di Lusso.

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I had to get the taste out of my mouth with a nice date.

There are way too many dirty-minded people in this newsgroup for that
to go unnoticed.

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Boron

Dirty minded? Ain't nothing dirty about a date.

;-)

Dimitri

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I had to get the taste out of my mouth with a nice date.

There are way too many dirty-minded people in this newsgroup for that
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Dirty minded? Ain't nothing dirty about a date.

;-)

(laugh) Now you know I was in a tizzy about that fig
experience. I feel better now, anyway, since the squirrels
have finished off the evil little things.

nancy

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Jean B. said:

jmcquown said:

Ooooh! Fresh dates are to die for! A co-worker, Milind, was always
after me to try whatever snacks he had brought to work that day.
He'd call me on the phone, Jill, can you come by my desk? One day
he had a bag of fresh dates AND ghee... he dipped a date in the ghee
and said "try this". I thought I'd gone to heaven. Fantastic!
Thanks, Milind!

Jill

So he ate them fresh? I got some fresh ones and thought I
would dry them. Guess what they attracted????

Do I win something if I guess this correctly? (laughing) Fruit flies?

This, of course, led us (Milind and I) to discuss how to make ghee.
Interesting household - he's not a vegetarian but his wife Sujata is.
Daughter is a toddler and hasn't made up her mind yet. Must be interesting
cooking half one way, half the other way. Not sure I'd have the patience
for it on a daily basis.

Jill

Yes, you are right. Quite the infestation. :-(

Maybe they can share some meal components; her main course
could be a side dish for him. Or maybe they can put different
things into one kind of sauce, sort-of splitting it off. I'm
glad I don't have that problem.

--
Jean B.

Nancy Young said:

Most likely came with the fruit fly eggs. I have to wash off all
fruit I bring into the house, before storing.

nancy

Good idea. If I see fresh dates again, maybe I'll give it
another try--and try them in their fresh state

--
Jean B.