Vanilla Fig Cinnamon Layer Cake

Fresh figs are another item that are so rare in this world (Colorado) that when you find them, you RUN – don’t walk – to the market and gather as many as you can. You consume, conspire, and create with the fresh figs in every way. And you bake a vanilla layer cake, slathering with…

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Vanilla Rosemary Fresh Fig Cheesecake

It’s Brian’s favorite.All time favorite – well, maybe.There are a few things on the “favorites” list, which makes it difficult, since I never make the same thing twice.(Well, we actually have the SAME meal every Saturday – you can count on on that). Other than Saturday “Stink,” everything else is a new experiment. While somethings…

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Rosemary Fig Pork and Parsnips

I waited all winter long to find fresh figs at the market. All winter. I thought for sure I’d find them around Christmas time or even New Year’s. Nope. Oh, Colorado… Needless to say, waiting all winter for fresh figs meant waiting months on end to create this mixture of amazingness over which I’d been…

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