What's on your Thursday Menu?

I love fresh figs. This is the time of year for them. A friend gave me 2 from her tree last week and I just gobbled them up.

FIGS!!! How could I have forgotten figs? Oh so sugary, but so very yum! The dry ones would just put me in a coma nowadays. I eye them constantly at Whole Foods but don't dare buying them.

I used to love figs until I learned how they are helped along to ripen via wasps...

Big huge nope for me now. Not just the vegan thing, but the gross out factor.

I know it's gross but I still love them. I just read they are not even considered fruit, they are a type of flower that blooms from the inside. So cool how nature works.

I agree, and I used to eat them ALL the time, straight off the tree. But now, I can't get it out of my head. I say enjoy as much as you can. LIVE FOR ME!

I'm going to have to google this...and I'm afraid

A friend bought me these figs from Italy that we're dipped in very dark chocolate. They were/are heaven! I won't be getting them again but man...so good.

i don't react to sweets as of yet but I do try to stay away from overly sweet stuff.

I know I am biased, but italian figs are the best. My SIL's parents have an orchard with fig trees. Every time I go home, if in season, they bring me these HUGE black figs. I'm drooling just thinking of them.

I'm drooling thinking about them too!

I used to be tapped into the Turkish community here, and one guy would always bring me a big bag of dried figs every time he went home. They were great!!