FOOD HOLIDAY: Gourmet Fig Recipes For National Fig Week

Fresh black mission figs with foie gras and a frisée salad. Photo courtesy BLT Steak Atlanta.   National Fig Week is the first week in November. How about some gourmet fig recipes? We’ll start with one below, Fig Panna Cotta. One of the simplest desserts, enjoyed since early times, is figs with honey. It couldn’t…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Mix Crudités With Green Salads

Mix it up: a green salad with crudites, figs and nuts. Photo courtesy La Tourangelle.   We were facing lot of leftover crudités—raw broccoli, cauliflower, green beans and sugar snap peas—among traditional salad ingredients like carrots, cherry tomatoes and radishes. Why is it that we normally toss the carrots, tomatoes and radishes into a green…
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Fig & Cheese Salad: A Grilled Cheese On Your Salad!

Most of us love a grilled cheese sandwich, most of us could eat more salad. So today’s tip combines both: a green salad with a grilled cheese crouton. Here’s a recipe to start you off. The recipe has a number of steps to create the complex flavors. But if you like the concept, you can…
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