The good thing about this time of year: It’s fig season. The bad thing about this time of year for me: I only ever do one thing with figs — make preserves. Occasionally, I use those preserves to make ...

Three recipes for fig preserves and an old recipe for Tujaque's bread pudding with tart cranberry sauceLast year, J.C. helped his wife make fig preserves from the fruit of the tree in their Slidell ...

Do you like fig preserves? I think it is one of those all-or-none kinds of questions. I’m not sure why, but when the topic comes up, I notice there is usually a quick division into two very distinct ...

On my parents’ property in Clarkston, there used to be an enormous, rambling fig tree. It sprouted up as a “volunteer” (the word my mother uses for things that aren’t planted, but somehow arrive ...

If it’s July, then it must be fig season. Those who grow fig trees say their trees are overloaded this year. The birds around Lynette Faul’s home like the figs almost as much as she and her husband do ...

Figs are abundant this season, but not all figs are created equally. Some areas of the Coast see and have seen quite a bit of rain while others have been bone dry. Naomi Coleman said she got too ...

FORT WORTH, Texas - A quick and simple recipe for grilled steaks with balsamic vinaigrette created by Lori Welander, a home cook from Richmond, Va., won top honors in the recent 25th National Beef ...

Folks from Acadiana have picked and canned figs to raise money for higher education. Now it's time to sell them. Layne Darby St. Julien and a group of close friends of her late husband, John St.

The good thing about this time of year: It’s fig season. The bad thing about this time of year for me: I only ever do one thing with figs — make preserves. Occasionally, I use those preserves to make ...