Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The last Figs of Summer

No more mellons, no more peaches - instead I found butternut squash and chanterelles at the market in Malaucène this morning. The wine harvest has started and I have just plucked the last figs off my tree. It's official: summer is over even though the temperatures suggest otherwise.
So I wanted to have one last fig tart and found a recipe for a savory one. To put it in a nutshell: this is a triple YUM!! A keeper!!
Recipe found in "Tartes de grand-mère salées et sucrées", editions ESI, Paris 2010

All you need is a roll of puff pastry, 130 gr fresh goat cheese, about half a kilo of figs, two hefty pinches of Herbes de Provence, some freshly ground black pepper, a generous handful of pine nuts, a sprinkle if olive oil and some serioulsy good parma or serrano ham.
Unroll the pastry and fit into a tart dish. Spread the fresh goat cheese on the bottom of the tart, place the halved figs on top, sprinkle with Herbes de Provence, a few rounds of the pepper mill and the pine nuts. Dribble a few drops of olive oil onto the figs and bake at 200C/400F for 30 minutes. Let cool down a bit and arrange very finely sliced ham on top. Even better with a nice cool glass of Rosé.

8 comments:

  1. Barbara, once again you have me drooling. Certainly would be wonderful to pick figs off your own tree. By the way...the time is now...."Ein Prosit!"

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  2. Oh, this is so delicious. Wonderfully fresh and ripe figs as with the other ingredients in a small tart. I would take immediately. Thanks for the recipe.
    A nice rest week and greetings
    Ingrid

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  3. That looks absolutely superb! I bet it'd work with a squashy blue cheese as well.

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  4. This sounds just like my kind of dish! Delicious! Figs here are also disappearing fast. x

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  5. Yum yum! I love using whatever you have on hand in the kitchen to create such splendid recipes! Enjoy your figs!

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  6. Hi Barbara,
    tomorrow ist market day in my little quarter in Berlin and as we are having quite a few turkish fruit dealers over here, I'am quite sure I can get delicious fresh figs from Turkey and add that recipe to my favourites!
    Thank you and habe a nice weekend!

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  7. Yummy, yummy, so temptingly beautiful, enjoy those lovely figs! ozlem x

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