It’s been a while since I posted anything sweet. Just as well since I’m more of a salty person anyway and so is Chris these days. In fact, we recently slipped over the edge of all reason and recieved a huge box in the mail from Salt works full with Fleur De Sel de Camargue and Maldon Sea salt, shhh. Today as I was strolling through the market looking for grapes I noticed fresh figs in their place. Figs? What was I supposed to do with these I wondered aloud as suddenly one exceptionally precocious little specimin with a perfect green stem piped up and said “Bake me with sugar and serve me with ice cream lady!”. Then, to my horror, the whole container of them plunged off the display and to their desths into my basket. I looked around and quickly scampered off toward the ice cream aisle hoping to avoid further embarrassment and then sped home to fulfill my destiny.

figs – fresh, ripe and crazy
butter, melted
sugar
fleur de sel
vanilla ice cream
Slice each fig in half, lay them into a baking dish, and brush with a little melted butter. Sprinkle some sugar onto each one and bake at 300F until they are soft and sweet, let cool on the counter. To serve, scoop some ice cream into a bowl and sprinkle lightly with a pinch of fleur de sel or other such good salt. Arrange a few still luke warm figs on top and enjoy. The little bits of salt in each bite of ice cream adds this mouth watering balance that comes accross as such an unexpected and tasty suprise, it’s simply *awesome*.

{tags salted ice cream baked figs}