{"id":5939,"date":"2022-10-12T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2022-12-18T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T23:11:13","slug":"the-indian-summer-the-figs-and-three-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/the-indian-summer-the-figs-and-three-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indian summer, the figs and three recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a very tough week for me starting literally with a lower back pain that was so excruciating that A. had to drove me to the doc as I couldn\u2019t even walk. Seating was a torture and lying was not better, I was happy I survived it and could finally walk, bend and move almost normally. But the doc said that my muscles needed a good week of rest so I followed the orders. No tennis, no bodyboarding and no gardening. I only allowed myself a 30min ocean swim on Saturday and Sunday. That left me with a loooooot of time\u2026 to cook of course! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with the summer slowly going towards the Indian summer, there is a slow change on fruits and vegetables available. Plenty of fruits with grape, nashi, passion fruits and figs. Yes! Figs! I love figs and usually would cook them in sweet recipes as A. is not a huge fan of sweet and savory mixes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I baked honey fig tarts to start with. And because our friend Y. also had a lower back pain I made extra for them and replace half of the wheat flour in the dough by rice flour. And then the magic of IG worked its charms\u2026 A friend who grows figs in a large fig plantation at the foot of mount Fuji saw the picture of the tarts and sent me a big parcel full of figs of different varieties, all with distinct texture, color and flavor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having so many figs at once to eat I decided that I could do a few savory recipes too, though to be honest they were so good, I didn\u2019t want to make complex things, and eating them just like that for breakfast was so perfect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I browse a bit the internet, but no recipe satisfied me. Most had goat cheese, a total no go for A. and anyway finding good goat cheese in Japan is still not easy\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I came up with too recipes, the first is a total improvisation, the second is inspired by Israeli cuisine, from one of Yossam Ottolenghi\u2019s book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So three recipes today, all with figs. One sweet, one savory and one up to you!! Enjoy!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n