Fig, Orange & Pecan Conserve

  Fig, Orange, & Pecan Conserve About this conserve (or jam):  What makes a jam a conserve?  Apparently, if you have two or more fruits in jam, it is a conserve, much like the Balsamic Cherry Tomato and Onion Conserve.  …

Golden Fig & White Balsamic Jam

Golden Balsamic Fig & Onion Jam           Source and a discourse on fig jam:  Adapted from my previous recipe, which has a much higher vinegar content than most recipes online.  However, everyone who has tried my …

LSU Gold figs with Ricotta Salata and a Port Reduction Glaze

Delicious! This would be good with any fresh fig.  These figs are so large, I halved them, and also shaved a bit off the bottom of each half so that they would not roll around the plate.       …

Fresh Fig & Balsamic Chutney

This is my most highly requested condiment.  Actually, it’s the only one I’ve been asked to make again.  And again. Everybody’s favorite way to eat this?  Over cream cheese with those buttery round crackers.  Very simply, very old school, but …

Balsamic Fig & Onion Jam

NOTE:  Updated and with directions! What happens when you follow your recipe notes, knowing that it’s not the recipe you normally make, but make it anyway?  Well, you don’t end up with the same thing, that’s for sure. This was …

Blue Cheese Spread with Fig Preserves

When you start canning stuff, you also start looking for ways to use them up!  A few years ago, I started canning figs.  Fortunately, when I expressed interest to my mother and mother-in-law, they both became a great source for …