Fig Jam
This image is not mine, but this is what I know to be a fig. My neighbor gifted me with some fig and I was in a tizzy trying to figure out what the heck to make with them. You see, what y'all call a fig, is not what I grew up calling figs...totally different animals...and to add insult to injury, I've never eaten what y'all call a fig (now do you see why I was in a quandary?). So what is a fig? The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica , a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world, both for its fruit and as an ornamental plant. So now that we know a little about what a fig is, I still have to figure out what to do with it. Click here to learn more about the Deluxe Cooking Blender So, what does one (meaning me) do? I turned to my arsenal of Pampered Chef gadgets and choose the Pampered Chef Deluxe Cooking Blender for
