When it comes to summer, we don’t feel like cooking, or is it just turning on the oven? Here’s an idea: make one batch of BBQ Fig Sauce to use as the basis for what to cook the rest of the week. Our Fig Chipotle Barbecue Sauce is sweet, smoky, and a bit spicy and a fig fan favorite. Homemade...

Hot summer days need a different kind of approach to dinner. Summer vegan recipes for dinner should be quick, light, big on flavor, and oven-optional. You’ll love how figs make summer vegan dinner recipes sizzle! Here are some ideas for how to incorporate them into foods you’ll love throughout the season. By focusing on sauces and marinades for summer vegan...

In Moroccan cooking, a tagine is both a cooking vessel and the name of the food created in it. That’s why sometimes you’ll see it called out in a recipe name or menu item. But if you’ve ever seen one you might wonder what do you cook in a tagine? Is the process different and why invest in a tagine...

It’s never too late to learn how to menu plan. Our meal prep ideas make plotting out a full week of wholesome, meals easy and delicious. We’ve included a few tips that will bring these meal preparation ideas to life too. But this isn’t your typical meal prep guide where you spend an entire day cooking for the week ahead—we...

Plan a fun fiesta at home with dried fig recipe ideas to pull together a Cinco de Mayo menu. We’ve got tacos, cocktail drinks, and desserts full of our Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Dried Figs Fig Mole Mushroom Tacos Keep your Cinco de Mayo meatless or add these naturally vegan tacos to your buffet. Mission dried figs cook down...

When it comes to bacon fig jam, you don’t have to wait to make it until November or December to give out as edible gifts. Our Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Mission Dried Figs add depth, but using our Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Golden Figs adds a delightful sweetness with the bacon. Here are four bacon jam uses to...

What is it about bubbling crust and melted cheese that makes us all weak in the knees? All you need to make curry pizza with figs a meal for weeknights or weekends are a few key ingredients. Making pizza crust from scratch isn’t hard, you just need time. Or, you can make a rustic tart that’s similar to pizza but...

When it comes to answering the dreaded question: what’s for dinner, sheet pan chicken breast and vegetables will be top of your list. Using a single sheet pan means your meal comes together without much cleaning required. Plus, cooking it all on one sheet pan in the oven will free you up to do other things while dinner comes together....

When trying to eat more vegetables, some people opt for salads, but can we suggest making a sheet pan full of this beet burger recipe first? Skip the frozen food aisle, when you see how to make beetroot burgers, you’ll see how easy it is to make your own using ingredients from your pantry and refrigerator. Don’t get us wrong...

This hot turkey sandwich recipe is an easy upgrade on a classic filling by adding in a fruit jam. Making jam with brown sugar brings a figgy flavor to a sizzling sandwich. Making Jam with Brown Sugar Orchard Choice and Sun-Maid California Dried Figs add a punch of sweetness with just enough heat from black pepper. Grinding the black pepper...

Incorporating figs into healthy living has deep roots. When you eat figs in healthy dried fig recipes, you join legions of fig lovers throughout history and while we love dried fig salad recipes, it’s not the only way to eat them. Did you know the early Olympic athletes used figs as a training food? Figs were also presented as laurels...

When January rolls around, we all like the clean start of trying again and one thing that can make healthy eating accessible is to plan ahead. Start Here: Recipes & Meal Prep Ideas We partnered with our friends at Bob’s Red Mill and savvy food bloggers to talk about setting SMART goals and thinking through meal prep ideas for real...