GETTING FIGGY
Loving figs... My friend Janice makes the most divine " Fig Preserves." I love that word, Preserves, American english for jam as opposed to jelly.To me the very word makes it " jam with heritage." There are still juicy figs at the market, waiting for you to turn them into the ultimate orgasmic breakfast treat. I smother toasted pain aux noix/ walnut bread with lashings of butter ( good fat!) and pile on Janice's Preserves. See recipe below* My first autumn in France was spent between breast-feeding my new-born son and standing beneath the fig tree literally stuffing my face with fresh warm figs. The perfume was overpowering, irresistable. My son was probably getting fig "on tap." Today he won't go near a fig. I can't go further without justifying my gluttonous relationship with this wonderful fruit Figs are high in natural and simple sugars, minerals and fibre. Figs c ontain good levels of potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, cop...