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Figs!!!

October 7, 2010 by Katie Mae Stanley 10 Comments

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White plate rimmed in blue with a slice of fig pie and scoop of cream colored ice cream.

Until a few weeks ago I can’t remember if I had ever eaten a fig before. Now they are one of my favorite fruits. Recently I have been making it a practice to eat as many local fruits and vegetables as possible and not waiting until I or some one else can get up to the States. Which means that I have been stepping outside my box of eating my regular spinage, romaine, apples, carrots and kale. I’ve been enjoying figs, pomegranates, yellow zucchini to mention a few. I found out that one of my friends has a fig tree and 6 pomegranate trees. Guess where I’m getting my fruit from now! She has more than she can ever use and is now blessing me with her excess. I decided to make a couple yummy desserts featuring these delicious fruits! The first recipe is a fig coconut ice cream and the second, a Fig Galette, a twist off of Kimi’s Rustic Plum Galette.

Fig Coconut Ice Cream
 
2 cans whole fat coconut milk
1 cup blended figs
1/2 cup raw honey
1. Blend all the ingredients until smooth. Pour into your ice cream maker and mix according to your ice cream makers instructions.
2. If you want your ice cream to firm up a for an hour or two in the freezer.
Goes great with a Fig Galette. Follow Kimi’s recipe simply substituting the figs for the plums and leaving  out the cinnamon!

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About Katie Mae Stanley

Katie Mae Stanley is the creator of Nourishing Simplicity. She believes that a made from scratch life is possible with a measure of grace. She teaches you to craft simple, nourishing recipes and natural DIY products at home.

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  1. Butterpoweredbike

    October 16, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    Katie – I wanted to than k you again for sharing this great post with the Hearth and Soul hop. I’ll be featuring it among my Best of the Blog Hop this week 🙂

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  2. a moderate life

    October 15, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    Hi Katie, I have a neighbor who has 3 fig trees by his back door. I know one of these days I will screw up the courage to ask him for a few. Fresh figs are divine! Thanks so much for sharing on the hearth and soul hop. You know, I did share your post about Little house on the prairie on my thoughts on friday link love at a moderate life. Just to let you know. 🙂 Alex@amoderatelife

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  3. Couscous & Consciousness

    October 15, 2010 at 4:25 am

    I love making my own ice cream and I ador fresh figs. Unfortunately they are so rarely available where I live – it’s a bit too cold for them to grow very successfull here. But occasionally we do get them, and I will be making this for sure the next time I can get some.
    Sue

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  4. girlichef

    October 13, 2010 at 11:24 pm

    well, I for one adore figs!! And the sound of the ice cream…yum. So simple, yet so delicious. So glad you shared this with the hearth and soul hop this week, I’ll be saving it for next year (eek!) when I can get fresh figs again! 🙂

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  5. Deanna

    October 13, 2010 at 11:08 am

    Yummy! This looks delicious. Are you using fresh figs or dried? I tried figs for the first time this summer and discovered that I like them!

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  6. Butterpoweredbike

    October 13, 2010 at 3:28 am

    Katie, I’m such a fan of your cooking (still thinking happy thoughts about your torta post). You are so lucky to have fresh figs. They’re also great in savory applications, especially stews, or wrapped with a little cured pork product. There used to be a big fig tree outside the dining hall where I went to college. Every year, it would drop its fruit, and people would track though it and make a mess. But it never got eaten, such a shame! If only I had known. Thank you for sharing at the Hearth and Soul hop.

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  7. Melynda

    October 12, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    This sounds delicious, thanks for sharing.

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  8. Alisa

    October 10, 2010 at 12:21 am

    yumm! i LOVE figs. when i went home a few weeks ago, my sister gave me 3 lbs of them. i was eating them with everything and making everyone at school try them. i love to stuff them with feta or bleu cheese and roast them (but i know that would be gross for a cheese-hater like you!). or, my sister-in-law makes fig jam that’s super tasty. i end up eating the vast majority of them just plain before i get around to doing anything fancy with them 🙂 so delicious!

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  9. Katie

    October 8, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    It was! I use kale in smoothies as weird as that might sound. It adds a extra bit of dark green leafy goodness into your diet. You can’t taste it too much if you have a sweet fruit with it, like pine apple or peaches. I also use kale in a split pea soup and a potato soup that I found on Kimi’s blog. They both have meat in them but you can easily leave it out. Can’t wait to see you soon!! Well in like 7 weeks. 🙂

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  10. LG

    October 8, 2010 at 1:29 am

    Looks good! How do you prepare your kale? It’s not something I’ve ever used.

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