With just a few ingredients and a bit of patience, you will be enjoying homemade fig and walnut ice cream.

Every year around this time, I wait for a text from some good friends who have an old, sprawling fig tree in their backyard: “Figs are ripening! Come pick anytime!” And we do. Figs are utterly unlike ...

Cooking Unscripted is exactly what it sounds like: no rules, no rigid measurements, no fussy precision. I’m not a professional chef or baker. I hate measurements with the passion of a thousand burnt ...

When neighbors give me fresh figs from their heavy-laden trees, most go straight into my mouth, barely making it into my kitchen for playing with. But this recipe — a bright, nutty, creamy salad that ...

Figs, which are technically syconia, are in season until March. They are a jammy, sweet treat with unique biological features, such as the enzyme ficin, which breaks down pollinating wasps and acts as ...

Sheri joins Trudy Austin in the kitchen and learns the secrets to a prized fig cake. Sheri Castle joins Trudy Austin in the kitchen and learns the secrets to her prize-winning Ocracoke fig cake. Figs ...

Fresh figs are ones of the treasures to seek out at late summer markets. Here are the ones to look for, and how to cook with them. Andee Gosnell is a San Francisco born, Birmingham-based food ...

Slicing figs is easy as heck. Just slice most of the way down one side, then the same down another. This will make the figs open like a blooming flower. Or...a monster.

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Preheat oven to 200°C. Roughly chop carrots, onion, celery and garlic. Rinse ducks and pat dry with paper towel. Prick duck skin all over with a skewer. Place carrots, onion, celery, garlic in ...