I’m a sucker for any fancy jam — especially fig jam, which has a way of making everything from basic toast to charcuterie boards feel extra special. So as soon as fresh figs show up at the market, I’m ...

Why settle for ordinary when you can have extraordinary? This prosciutto and burrata sandwich with fig jam brings variety to ...

If you aren’t lucky enough to have a yard full of fruit trees and berry bushes, maybe you know someone who does. Often, all it takes is a casual mention in a group that you’d love some figs, quince or ...

Featuring fig jam, dried figs, and fresh figs (for those glorious few weeks when they’re in season), our best fig recipes earn rave reviews. Bake up a batch of fig bars or a fig cake recipe, simmer ...

You often see recipes that combine ricotta and fresh figs. This is just an offshoot of that -- a dish of whole-milk ricotta with a large spoonful of fig jam in the center, so you get the smooth, cool, ...

There is a saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” For Rancho Bernardo residents Larry and Michele “Micki” Krupinski, two of their trees had lots and lots of figs, so they made jam. They ...

The good thing about this time of year: It’s fig season. The bad thing about this time of year for me: I only ever do one thing with figs — make preserves. Occasionally, I use those preserves to make ...

If the birds offer any clue, this is a very, very busy time of year. Every seed tumbling from shriveled flower heads must be pecked up (or in the case of sunflowers, directly helped from their tight ...