Fig invasion

in Creative Cuisine2 days ago

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Oh yes! This is one of the fig trees full of fruit; it is so tall that we need ladders to reach the middle and upper branches.

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And I guess there is only one way to deal with the fig invasion that has taken over my mom's garden this year. Maybe there are two, actually:

One - leave them on the tree so the birds eat the fruits.

Two - pick them and consume them.

But that's not so easy because figs are a bit difficult to consume in large quantities. More precisely, all of us in the house can't eat as many figs as there are.

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Figs ripen in stages. For example, in one week, you can harvest several kilograms of figs. On a daily basis, it is like a bowl full of fruits. It lasts for a week or a bit more, and then nothing, you have to wait for the next round, when the same happens again. So, the tricky thing is to preserve these figs in some way if you can't consume them all.

As my mother likes marmalade, she came up with several recipes for it. Our first attempt to prepare marmalade from figs happened a few years ago. I was present as it was summer, and I was here visiting them. In that version, she put half a lemon into the mass, as the fig alone does not have a special, distinctive taste. With lemon, it was okayish.

The next attempt included orange. We grated the orange peel and also squeezed the orange juice into the marmalade mass. This edition of marmalade has already acquired a different, more interesting taste. I noticed a slight bitterness from the orange peel, so the next batch went without the peel, even though the entire inside of the orange was ground and added to the chopped fig mass before making the marmalade.

The very last edition of fig marmalade contains pineapple. I know, it sounds like a weird combination, but this indeed is quite refreshing. What I hold in my hand for this photo is one jar of fig jam made a few days ago, with pineapple.

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Apart from these marmalade adventures, there are different ways to prepare & consume figs. My dad found a recipe on the internet to "bake" them in an oven. You have to cut them in half, sprinkle them with a little sugar to caramelise them, as was the case here, or drizzle them with a little honey.

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When they were baked, after some 35 minutes, we let them cool down for some time. I added some lemon and tried. Well, it was not bad, but too sweet for my taste.

That day, after lunch and tasting the oven-baked figs, I was still thinking about how we could prepare the rest of the figs - still one full bowl of them in the fridge. I know my mom used to prepare apple cakes, like a pie. The dough is placed in a pan, then sour apples with cinnamon are arranged, and the dough is again placed on top. Perhaps the same could be prepared with figs instead of apples, with cinnamon and lemon, or combine figs with some other sour fruit. That would be our next experiment these days.

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But maybe you have another creative idea, what to do with the amount of figs that you cannot consume fresh? If yes, please be kind and leave the idea in the comment section... or come and help us eat all these figs. 😂

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Good evening again, @mipiano. I don't have a recipe to offer you... just to say that those baked figs look delicious and that mushroom jam with pineapple sounds great too.

A big hug.

Good morning @enraizar, the pineapple mix was good, now we put into the oven a new experiment 😂 a pie, half plums (the original version of this pie) and other half figs.

Good afternoon? @mipiano... Let us know how the experiment went. 🤩

Have a great start to the week.

It was successful 😆
I am alive hahaha

I didn't have any figs this year yet! :o

Making jam/mouse is probably the best way to preserve them. I would also add them to oats for breakfast or toasts just to eat them faster fresh :p
Did you try to freeze them?

The huge freezer my parents have is already full of other things hahaha 😬😂

I didn't have any figs this year yet! :o

Oh no.... only if I could send some... 💌
When I am in Spain and don't have any, I wish I could have at least one fig lol, and here - invasion! 😂

The huge freezer my parents have is already full of other things

Oh boy :D
Make jam! Lots and lots of jam.... 🤤

We used to have large quantities of figs in Crete. One year @traisto made a very nice marmalade with figs and grape syrup (no sugar at all) but the most usual way is to dry them in the sun. It is like you did in the oven but you let the sun do the job (no extra sweeteners needed).

I hope you are enjoying your vacation :)

Thank you very much for the idea, I think my parents were considering the idea about drying them but have never tried in the end. I will remind them about that option 😉

Thank you, full vacation mode is on 😇


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they're invading here, too!
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So, that's true! The Fig Invasion arrived 😂

They are the same at my cottage.
Big as pears 🙂

You are under fig invasion too? 😜

Interestingly, I don't remember anyone had fig trees here when we were kids. Now, it seems that fig trees got used to this climate, or it is just that the winters are not so cold anymore.

We have four trees on the lot where our cottage is.
They convene at different times, so we have them for a longer period.

My mother brings me from the cottage, every time she comes she gets a few pieces, but they are really huge. I eat two max :-)

There were figs here before, but they were much smaller, now they probably like winters that are not too cold, so they grow really big.

Well, I asked my mother about this, since we had a plant in Argentina, but she told me that they never made jam because we ate them all. They were distributed among relatives, so I don't know the recipe, but I liked the idea of pineapple!

My father can't eat them although he really liked figs (he shouldn't consume them because of the sugar levels...) and my nieces are in other cities right now, so we are "reduced in number" who can eat them haha.

Btw, thanks for asking your mom about it 🤗
Mixing it pineapple and in dough, like cake, I think that will happen tomorrow :))

So... we'll see the cake too... right? That's a great idea!

So... we'll see the cake too... right?

Right! Hahaha, you saw the cake indeed 😁

Yes, I saw it... an alien took it! Watch out!

I'll be honest, I've never made anything with figs and I just saw in your post so many recipes that I've never seen before in my entire life haha 😂 so I can help you consume them, not for myself, but for my mom who loves them, I already shamelessly sent Buhito to bring some, sorry 🦉❤️

I liked the pineapple-figs jam recipe, it's new haha 👀

Buhito is very welcome to fly over here and bring your mom as many figs as she wants. And we also had a pie today, well, it was delicious, so we ate it haha, but tomorrow a new one can be baked. 😉

That’s a fig-tastic situation to be in! I’d gladly help with the tasting if I could, those marmalade variations sound amazing! 😄

Haha, that's a funny word, fig-tastic 😆👌

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Solo he comido higos deshidratados, la verdad no me gustan mucho, pero se pueden comer. Ojalá y pudiera ir a probar esa mermelada con piña 😋...interesante mezcla!! Estoy leyendo al revés, así que ya supe que el experimento fue un éxito, buena manera de controlar la invasión de higos, a comer pastel de higos!!!🤣