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1. Tell us about your favourite fig experience January 2011
We want to hear from you, do you have a favourite recipe or fig experience? send it to us via the contact page and we might post it on our website.
We once received a letter from the UK regarding how terrible we were and that we nearly caused a divorce! we were horrified, what had we done? To our delight and surprise our mistake was to have an odd number of enrobed figs in the box. What were they to do? Cut it in half and diminish the experience, not share ........ you can guess the potential outcome there!
We happily rectified the problem by sending the couple a pair of figs for them to enjoy together
Please share your stories with us.
Happy figging,
Posted on: January 24, 2011
2. The Cook The Chef - episode 6 Fabulous Figs January 2011
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/cookandchef/txt/s1877658.htm
In this week’s episode, our Fig infatuated Cook & Chef are kept fully supplied with fruit after Simon finds out how to get his hands on figs all year round. Meanwhile Maggie drops in on a traditional Italian cheese maker who shares the time-honoured practice of preparing Fior de Latte Mozzarella.
Armed with figs in all their forms, Simon uses Dried Figlettes and combines them with his all time favourite ingredient, coffee to make an out of this world Turkish Fig Bread.
Still on the fig theme, Simon continues to insist he doesn’t have a sweet tooth. Nevertheless he bakes a Fig Pudding topped with Carob Sauce that’s sweet enough to satisfy the biggest sugar fiend.
Meanwhile Maggie tops off some mouth watering Blue Cheese Tartlets with Figs and then goes all out with a combination of ingredients to emulate a Sicilian Cheese before finally merging the flavour of this “Burrata” cheese with Figs and Honey. To top off her Fig symphony, she finishes the program by showing us how to Preserve Figs that might otherwise end up in the bin.
More Recipes from Episode 006
Mozzarella with Creme Fraiche and Figs. – “My take on Burrata”
Posted on: January 22, 2011
3. The Cook The Chef - 18 January 2011
The Cook And The Chef - Fabulous Figs
| ABC TV guide, the full 7 day ABC Television schedule. Sort by genre, time of day or print the 7 day guide. Figs are ripe, so celebrate the season with Simon's fig pudding with carob sauce and Maggie's fig and blue cheese tarts. Easy recipes that make the most of fabulous figs. |
Posted on: January 22, 2011
4. The Cook The Chef - 13 January 2011
| 17 Mar 2008 Education Repeat CC G Website Figs are ripe so celebrate the season with Simon s Fig pudding with Carob sauce and Maggie s Fig and Program Summary Email The Cook And The Chef Fabulous Figs. |
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200803/programs/FA0625S006D17032008T133000.htm
Posted on: January 22, 2011
5. The Cook The Chef January 2011
| They pick their crop over a ten week period but because figs ripen gradually, the fruit from a single tree will be ripe at different times over that ten weeks. So what do fig lovers do to get their hands on figs all year round? |
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/cookandchef/txt/s1877742.htm - 21 Mar 2007
Posted on: January 22, 2011
Willabrand Figs: In the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia
In a pleasant valley, a few kilometres into the hills from Tea Tree Gully, Scottish orchardist, George McEwin established a factory and began producing a brand of jam that was to become a household name - Glen Ewin.
It all began in 1862 when George had too much fruit for market and it began to rot - so he turned it into jam and it was a hit. Within three months he was bringing in over a hundred tons of fruit and, at the height of the operation he was employing over 100 people.
He planted more figs and many of those trees are still on the property today. Much of the fruit was brewed in giant steam-jacketed copper pans before being packaged under famous brand names like Viking and King Urli. By the late 1980s the property had fallen on hard times but fortunately Willa Wauchope of Willabrand Figs has brought the operation back to life.
“When we took it over in 1991 and it was in a terrible state. So we've really nurtured the orchard back from nothing to where it is now. This year we are planting out the rest of the property to figs.”
Figs are again making a splash around the country. Thanks to Willa Wauchope, what was once regarded as "nana's" fruit - the sort you'd find in grandmother's backyard is making it's way onto the restaurant tables of Sydney, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
“Figs had a reputation of being Granny’s medicine and we've very much moved away from that. Figs also have a very exotic history - almost a biblical history too. Cleopatra used to bathe in goat's milk and her goat's milk was made into the finest goat's cheese in the land and that was done using the fig sap. I'm hoping to convince the Chinese that they're an aphrodisiac and then I think I'll be set,” Willa laughed.
“I also have a philosophy about the progression of the (three) biblical fruits - the grape, the olive and the fig. The grapes have had their day, olives are having their day and figs are about to have their day.”
And they'll continue to, as long as Willa continues to coat them in a tide of chocolate. The taste buds are teased relentlessly as he and his good mate DP keep the chocolate-fig assembly line moving on.
In 2003, Willa's passion for figs won him the Premier's Food Award. Today we can share that passion through the entire range of Willabrand Fig products - from the chocolate dipped creations through to the fig and fruit log. They are all on sale at Glen Ewin at Houghton, at the Central Market and other quality food outlets. If you have any further questions please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Willabrand Figs
Available at Glen Ewin Estate
Lower Hermitage Road
Houghton
Open weekdays, weekends by appointment.
Also available at Adelaide Central Market
Posted on: December 09, 2010
7. Nexus Australia December 2010
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Posted on: December 09, 2010
