Figs are coming, figs are coming! They are in the stores now and will soon be ripe on trees around town! I can’t wait…..one of my favorite foods to glean!

This dessert can be made with all local ingredients, figs from your local frees, goat cheese from local goat milk, perhaps you know a special milk maid locally like I do and honey!! I have always loved Bee charmer extraordinaire Randy Oliver’s honey, but recently I was given some wonderful honey from the Boorinakis-Harper Ranch in Auburn so I have been enjoying making this dish with that.

This can also be made as an appetizer, but I find it to be the sexiest way to end a meal…….

Fresh Figs with Goat Cheese and Peppered Honey
Serves 4

1/4 cup honey
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
12 fresh figs
1/4 cup soft fresh goat cheese

Combine honey and pepper in small pitcher; stir to blend. Starting at stem end, cut each fig into quarters, stopping 1/2 inch from bottom to leave base intact. Gently press figs open. Spoon 1 teaspoon cheese into center of each. Arrange figs on platter; drizzle with peppered honey.

It feels like summer is wrapping up, school is back in session…cooler days, although I hear the heat is not yet over. We got one last summer trip in this past week. My family has had a cabin Twain Hart for over 50 years and my mom went there as a child, I did and now Felix has too! Here is a photo of our last day on beach…….Felix loves figs, but he also loved eating sand.

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