Here are more fig recipes from my favorite magazine:

http://www.saveur.com/solrSearchResults.jsp?q=fig

Great addition to the collection. Especially the leaf wrapped things as outside on the grill is where to cook now! Ground lamb meatballs wrapped in leaves and cooked in the coals would be good too.

Thanks for the recipes.

One of the problems with many fig recipes though, is that if you are trying to use up too many figs, with the recipes you just end up with too much food.

So I tried just simply roasting some figs in the oven until they were nicely carmelized.  Pretty good.  And a big bunch of figs ended up a small amount of carmelized figs.  N.B: Be sure and use a non-stick roasting pan or give it a good spray of non-stick spray.  The carmelized fig juice is pretty hard to get off otherwise.

Also I have made really excellent fig bread (like banana bread).  But once again, now you just have more food.

Too bad I can't get the fig trees to spread the harvest throughout the year!  ;-)

So I'm going to start canning figs again soon.

Best wishes to all.

John

Please share the results of the ground lamb meatballs wrapped in fig leaves.   I don't have enough figs this year to cook with.  They will go straight from the tree into our bellies, but using the leaves would be interesting.   I'm going to try fig tea.