Figs and the Far Side of Complexity

Our Adriatic (?) Fig Tree

In the past few weeks our fig tree has gone from bare to sporting new leaves and baby figs!! Further evidence that spring is upon us (even though it has been pouring rain for the past few days).  I can't wait until July when we get to enjoy our first crop of these tasty fruits and I get to bust out the cookbooks and start making every fig recipe I can find.  Last year two of my favorite fig recipes were figs sprinkled with warm goat cheese and figs drenched with a warm cinnamon butter cream sauce.  My mouth is watering already!!

We typically get more figs than we can possibly eat. So we let the birds eat the hard to reach fruits and unload what we can't eat on happy friends and family.  However, I recently found a local garden exchange program where we can trade fruits and veggies. This year, I'm looking forward to trading our excess figs for some tasty bounty!


I thought it would be fun to include a quote about figs and this is the first one that I happened across. I thought it was perfectly fitting.

"I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." - Oliver Wendell Holmes