Medjool dates & fresh figs

[azfiddle]

I absolutely LOVE medjool dates - sometimes they are called the "queen of dates". Also if you can find them, barhi (honey) dates, which are smaller and rounder, and black dates are great. If you have a middle-eastern food store you can get them in bulk and they may be a little cheaper.


Dried figs- just don't eat the stem. I like mission and calimyrna dried figs, but it's easy to eat too many of them.

[Catrin]

A delicious, healthy, fiber rich dessert I kind of Frankensteined out of some raw recipes:

In a food processor, process a few fresh medjool dates, a tablespoon or two of ground flax seed, a pinch of salt, and a half a cup of rolled oats. add a tablespoon of maple syrup or agave nectar. Should be crumbly at this point.

Sprinkle the crumble on top of juicy, ripe peaches, sliced up

Perfect!

Sounds fantastic and I can see mixing this concoction with berries! I've a confession, I really don't care for peaches, nectarines or citrus.
I WILL eat a peach before an orange though, and I do like peach ice-cream. Then again, I've yet to find an ice cream I don't like

I absolutely LOVE medjool dates - sometimes they are called the "queen of dates". Also if you can find them, barhi (honey) dates, which are smaller and rounder, and black dates are great. If you have a middle-eastern food store you can get them in bulk and they may be a little cheaper.

Dried figs- just don't eat the stem. I like mission and calimyrna dried figs, but it's easy to eat too many of them.

I love dried figs, just hadn't had fresh figs before yesterday and wasn't certain if I was supposed to eat the skin or not. I did

So I've tried two new fruits, well, one really and another in a form I've not had before. I would like to try other non-citrus fruits as well - but I draw the line at prunes <shiver>

[margo49]

Come on over, we're just about to harvest! We have 10 000 palms just on our kibbutz let alone the rest of the country...enough for all of you! We can even ride out to one of the young groves 1000 pa lms hat I helped water them when they were just planted. You can still reach the fruit from the ground out there and it is an easy ride of <5 km !!

The barhi is great! If you buy them yellow and hard put in freezer 48 hours then take it out and let it thaw. Goes a kind if caramel colour and is soft and yummy.
Medjool is the best though - all soft and juicy. They will be ready in month or 6 weeks...
but now I know you-all are interested I will keep an eye on them

There are lots of kinds of dates and they do grow some of them in parts of the US as well.

[shootingstar]

I love fresh figs --all varieties. I tend to peel off the skin and discard it.

What do others do here?

[Susan Otcenas]

I have a fig tree in my yard, but some years it doesn't get warm enough for them to ripen on the tree. Last year, we got almost none before the rains started, and those we did get I ended up roasting (with some honey, then eating with balsamic & goat cheese. yum!) because they were a little underripe.

I love dates, too. Brought some home from France, in fact. Chop one up and put it on steel cut oats. Yum. Much better than brown sugar, and healthier, too!