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Simple is good. Very good. This will be repeated often for the next several months.

Bookmarked, thanks. I'll probably try that. I am also going drying in a Nu-wave oven. It's too cumbersome to use for cooking but I think it will dry figs very effectively.

Thanks for posting this. The fact that I really like my rice cooker is the only thing keeping me from puling the trigger (so to speak). My goal is to replace several appliances with one and I am also interested in the milk pasteurization function.

I'll definitely be trying that cake. I like prosciutto with my figs and blue cheese.

I bookmarked this for fall. Although I don't do any type of canning I may try a small batch to keep in the refrigerator. Something about the sight of my fig tree after a frost makes me sad - the leaves fall off and many lost figs are visible. I may take some comfort in rescuing some before the frost.

re. green tomatoes - I recently did a quickle with some that blew off my plant in a storm. Very good even though I forgot garlic.

I will soon have an abundance of figs. Are you doing the "bring to a boil, let set over night, repeat 5 times" method?

Our tomatoes are winding down here. There will be a smaller crop of fall tomatoes but not for at least several weeks.

The Recipe Table at the Stillwater Farmers' Market. The cash is for the bags, the recipes are free.

Shelby, once cut that bread was lovely. However, I must say that it looked like a tumor before cutting. Thanks for sharing. BTW, when I don't get good oven spring it is usually due to over proofing.

Right before I close up the jar and return it to the refrigerator.

Good luck!

I am so jealous of the tomatoes. I want badly to make another tomato pie. Farmers' Market on Saturday!

Of course I'm going to tempt you! PM on the way.

Make that Fri, 9/18, 5:45pm.

I can't get a reservation for one at Catbird Seat. Anyone interested in going Sat 9/19?

Pickled tongue sliced thin and piled high on rye with mustard was how I grew up eating tongue. In fact the only way I ever had it until I was an adult. I pickled pork once for a pork and beans dish and have thought about pickling a tongue. Of course, I would have to call it bologna.

I just noticed the hot dog buns shaping directions say to rotate 360 degrees. It's 180.

Almost all of the blackberries end up on my husband's cereal. My favorite things to do with figs include salty cheese and meat. I give a lot to friends. I have had pretty good luck drying them, just in a brown paper bag in the refrigerator. This year I'm going to try drying them in a Nu-Wave oven that was a gift. It's too much trouble to clean to use for general cooking but I think it will dry figs well. You can tell by my answers that I don't make jam/preserves.

Matty C you do raise some interesting points. When I am deciding where to spend my food destination travel dollars I spend a significant amount of time researching. I have been fooled once - a restaurant in Las Vegas in a hotel with fancy fountains. I paid a lot of money for food that was good but not great, however, it was my choice and I knew my meal would be expensive. If the food had been great it would have been "worth it" to me, even if the restaurant made a huge profit off of me and a recent graduate could have prepared the meal. Greed is common in many industries. I think about this a lot as I live in a state ruled by one of the greediest industries imaginable. However, I am not particularly worried about the effect of greed on people that have the resources to spend $74 for a roast chicken.

peaches and cream pie BTW, peaches are easy to peel after roasting. For this recipe no need to blanch and shock.

You could probably grow figs if you chose the right variety and planted it in a protected area. Mine is about 10 feet from the south-facing brick wall of my house. Most winters it dies back and starts over in the spring. Cutting away the dead wood is a bit of a project but a worthwhile one. I have had pretty good luck with sage and rosemary in pots in the house. Other herbs, not so much. A couple years ago we bought a small greenhouse and they are all happier out there as long as it is not too hot. Even with the windows open and fan on I think it's too hot now. Also, while I have never noticed spider mites in the greenhouse I do not want to tempt fate by supplying their favorite plants. I'll wait until after a hard frost. In the winter we set the greenhouse thermostat to 40F. Even on the coldest days it generally does not get below 40F in there until well after sunset and rewarms quickly once the sun rises.

What does this mean? Especially interested in the Dallas bit. Dallas is a common food destination for me. And BTW, I think "overpriced" is in the eyes of the beholder (purse/pocket of the walletholder?). Anything prepared by slitting open the Sysco bag and reheating is overpriced to me.

My garden is very small. I have a low tolerance for heat and sun. As soon as it hits 90 degrees F, I retreat to the air conditioning. I have learned not to plant more than I am willing to care for. The "kitchen garden". In the foreground, basil being allowed to to go seed and my tomato plant (yes, I only have one). Clockwise, starting at the lower left: flat leaf parsley seedlings, I hope (the spent adult plant was here); what's left of a basil plant harvested a couple days ago, thyme, garlic chives and jammed up against it (because I can't get to the roots of the garlic chive plant) a celery plant; a very old and partly dead rosemary; lettuce seedlings sort of in the center; on the right edge a sad looking epazote plant. Don't know what happened to the epazote, generally it thrives. Fortunately, I have plenty of seeds including some recently potted. The west end, clockwise, starting at 11 oclock: thyme, garlic chives, garlic chives, celery, volunteer kale (several plants), tarragon, rosemary. My fig tree, more of a bush really. There will be many figs this year! Blackberries in the background - done for the year. Oregano and the empty garlic bead in the foreground. I'm having the garlic bed extended about 16 feet. And in the house, safe from spider mites (I hope!); a replacement rosemary and sage seedlings. After a hard frost I'll move them to our little greenhouse. Note to self: Order beneficial mites next spring.

Andie, thanks for the report on rice and other grains. I have noticed farro takes a long time in my ZO but have never had to run 2 cycles. The smoked turkey leg dish sounds good.