WanderFood Wednesday! Summer Sweets Fresh off the Grill
It’s fig season in Santa Barbara, apparently, judging by the small ripe figs coming off of my grandfather’s young tree. He’s immensely proud of producing the fruit, and just about had a fit when he saw what was on the menu for dessert on Sunday night: Figs! He was planning to bring one of the three precious figs to his nurse this week, and would not suffer Fig poaching on his property!
We tried telling him that these figs came from Costco, but to him… figs is figs.
These juicy sweet figs were a perfect light summer dessert, and so easy. You soak rosemary branches in water, then spear them through the ripe fruit and grill the skewered figs for just a couple minutes on each side. The idea is to heat them up so the fig infuses with rosemary. I like to finish them off with a drizzle of aged balsamic vinegar (and goat cheese, and bacon if I have my druthers).
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I’ve been grilling everything these days, especially eggplant – which means that my favorite end-of-summer recipe is baba ghanouj! I always freeze some eggplant pulp so I can make it in the dead of winter too.
anything with tomatoes!! i love, love, love summer. and recently made food 52’s brown butter tomatoes. pure bliss!
‘Tis the season…for figs! I am laughing at “fig poaching” (see my post) and loving the recipe!!
Two fig posts on the same day, must be time to eat more figs:
http://wanderlustandlipstick.com/blogs/pamperspakhlava/2012/08/29/give-a-fig/
Mmm, Mara, I love grilled eggplant. I like to briefly marinate it in garlic and olive oil and a little salt before throwing it on the grill. Can’t imagine it any other way (unless it’s in baba ghanouj!)
Wandering Educators – RIGHT?! Tomatoes. Heirloom tomatoes in all kinds of funky yellows, oranges, greens, reds, in weird shapes. I want to eat them all, with or without basil and balsamic vinegar!
Beth – You and I were thinking the same thing today. I couldn’t get “figs is figs” (from Pigs is Pigs) out of my head. Maybe it was the bacon…