I'm thinking of buying a couple of fig recipe books/cookbooks that I found on amazon.com.  Has any purchased these, or can they recommend some good fig cookbooks or recipe books? 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1743471610/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006053849X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615280307/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Any thoughts or perhaps other suggestions?

Online recipes  - click figs there are 2 pages of different fig recipes , i posted this some years back but here it is again .   ; )

http://www.justfruitrecipes.com/inxfig-page02.html

If I only had the figs needed for the recipes. Oh well some day. 

Thank you, Martin, appreciate you bumping up the links to my thread.  I'll bookmark this web site.  I did see some nice recipes on Bass' web site (Trees of Joy), and printed off a couple of yummy options. 

Martin

Thx for the great recipes

Patty, I have the book Fig Heaven. I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but some of them look very interesting to me and I hope to try them in the future. Under the Fig Leaf looks interesting, too. I think I will add it to my collection. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks Martin, I sent that link to my wifes e-mail.

Good to know, Susan.  I used to live in N. Indiana (Middlebury).  You live in one of the most beautiful parts of the country :-) 

Patty, I don't know where Middlebury is, but my sister used to live in Munster, Indiana. I wondered where "Hoosierquilt" came from...

Thanks for posting these recipes!  I had just asked about recipes and this is great!  Thanks for taking the time.

Susan, Middlebury is right next to Shipshewana.  About maybe 10 miles from the border of Michigan, and almost equidistant from the western and eastern border of Indiana.  Between South Bend (Notre Dame) and Shipshewana (Amish country).  Yup, that's where the "hoosier" came from - my 10 years in Indiana. Never lost the moniker :-) 

There is a beautiful recipe book entitled "Fig Heaven".

Great, Jon, that was one of the 3 cookbooks I was considering, good to know.  I also found a few nice recipes on Sunset Magazine's web site.  They have about 34 different fig recipes, if you search by "Fig", then narrow the seach down by category, "Recipes" on the left side of the search results page.

Patty, There are only 2 fig recipes in this cookbook, but they alone are worth the price of the book. The green bean & fig salad is one of my family's favorites. Tons of other great recipes in it. When you check the reviews on Amazon there are some people upset that it is not "authentically" Basque. That doesn't bother me as my wife & I love to cook recipes from this book.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Basque-Kitchen-Tempting-Pyrenees/dp/0067574610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355214638&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Basque+kitchen

Thanks, DWD.  I love to cook, and have a nice cookbook collection, will definitely consider adding this to my collection, especially with fig recipes included. 

Patty,

    I have some recipes, but am extremely busy right now. Email me in a week, and I'll dig them out for you.

Thanks, Dale, I will do that!  I keep a pretty large "Recipe" folder for saved recipes.  Think it's time to create some sub-folders for categories, one of course, being "Fig Recipes" :-)

I was going to look for a place to post recipe's.   I have this cookbook called "Fig Heaven".  I see it mentioned by a few earlier.   My wife bought it for me a few months back.   I made the dried fig, walnut, and chunky chip cookies today.   I changed up a few things though.   I added coconut (I love coconuts) and soaked the cut up figs in Kahlua liquor.   Very good.  I would recommend this book.   

Sounds like a great alteration to the recipe, Dan!  I ended up buying both "Fig Heaven" and "Under the Fig Leaf".  They are both excellent cookbooks.  Plus, I've received a long list of excellent fig recipes from Dale this morning (some are really mouth-watering!)  I feel like I am prepared to use up all the figs as they get ripe, now.  Plus, I have an Excalibur Dehydrator, so I'll try drying some as well, and even freezing some to be used in cooking.  So nice to have figs available year 'round to cook with.  Would be nice if we had a folder in the forum set up just for fig recipes, though.  Maybe Jon could see if that might be something he could do?  That would be fun!!

Patty, David Lebovitz was the pastry chef at Chez Panisse and does my favorite food blog. Here are a few of his fig recipes:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2010/11/roasted-figs-recipe/
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2012/09/fig-chutney-recipe/
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2007/07/top-tapenade-ti/
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2012/10/apple-tart-recipe-harvest-grapes-figs/

Enjoy!

Ooh, thank you, DWD!  I will bookmark this site just for general cooking purposes, and save the fig recipes as well.  I hope Jon will consider a sticky folder for Fig Recipes, I think that would be pretty nice!

My wife loves to cook, surprised im not fat (oh wait i am ) 35lbs over . but she loves to cook, bake you name it. it will be great to inc our two passions my growing and her cooking. we do with alot of other produce, just havent found anything to do with figs yet. havent had alot of figs yet. as soon as one is ripe the kidoes little radar goes off and no more rip fig. got loads of blackberries years past enough the kids got what they wanted and we still took almost 50 galons to the food pantry, cherries to i have one cherry tree that produces more cherries than i can pick, the families around can pick and the birds can pick.

Patty,

   I  am surprised the  commercial Fig Growers Association hasn't put out recipes.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/roast-figs-sugar-snow-diana-henry/1112247264?ean=9781845335243&itm=1&usri=fig

http://www.amazon.com/Platter-Figs-Other-Recipes/dp/1579653464

http://localfoods.about.com/od/summer/tp/QuickFigs.htm

http://www.culinate.com/books/collections/all_books/dinner_at_your_door/portobello_polenta_with_wine_and_figs

http://www.southernliving.com/food/entertaining/fig-recipes-00417000079196/

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/holiday-eats/blintzes-with-port-and-figs-a-preview-recipe-from-todd-and-ellen-grays-the-new-jewish-table-cookbook.php

OMG, check out the Southern Living link.  You can have the fig & bourbon and fig pudding, I'll take all the rest!!!  Thanks JazzBass for posting this, love it.