As a new year begins, with it brings a desire for healthier eating as the holidays are increasingly in the rearview mirror. Enter Fig Vinaigrette, versatile for the salad bowl and beyond. Whether you opt for balsamic vinegar and olive oil, or lime juice and canola oil, the thing to master with vinaigrette is the golden ratio. This means three...

Snacks for dinner! Hear us out: sometimes you want a light bite or noshes for happy hour that tide you over as a main meal. We have four ideas for snacking dinners with dried figs to try next time you want finger food to rule. PROSCIUTTO: Snacking Dinners Crispy Prosciutto Fig Crostini with Brown Butter Pistachios Technically, you’ve got all...

Does it ever feel like the summer gets trimmed shorter each year? Autumn awaits and as school starts again, everyone could benefit from back to school meal prep. These ideas are not just reserved for houses with school age children—instead, you’ll find ideas to benefit people who need fresh ideas for dinner, or those who want to spend time doing...

This summer, as you assemble cheeseboards and break out the condiments for sandwiches, fig chutney just might be the spread that will make your meals impressive, interesting and delicious. You love fig jam and we have so many of them for you to choose from, so we have a hunch you may be especially excited to learn more about chutney....

Summer days start in California at 6:30 when the sun is already shining and welcoming the day ahead. Cooking starts lightening up and if we’re being honest, in Fresno, where our figs soak up hot summer days, sometimes the last thing we want to do is turn on the oven — cue chicken with figs. Recipes that are cooling are...

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...