Inspiration is hard to come up with 2-3 times per week to fill this blog, but it can come when you least expect it. After an amazing trip to Northern California last week where I had a blackberry and peach pie large enough to have it's own continent, this Sweet Fig and Blueberry Galette popped into my head. Just like that!
More on the trip north coming soon, but for now let's talk figs. I feel sorry for them sometimes, they usually get the corner of the shelf beside the dates and seem like a destination ingredient, not like a strawberry or raspberry.
Figs, when they're ripe are soft and sweet and can be used in so many recipes.
I had a crumble top pie in my mind for these but that idea went belly-up, thank the baking gods for inventing galettes. I didn't have enough figs to fill a whole galette and that could have been figgy overkill so the blueberries ended up being a great filler.
As sweet as the figs are, a little brown sugar always helps, okay a lot. Mix in some cornstarch and you have a saucy sweet tart filled with lumps of juicy fruit.
The pastry, oh the pastry. It's a recipe I've started using for all things pie, super flaky and has so much butter in it your pants might burst just looking at it...straight up! The moral of this post is simple, figs are cheap and awesome to cook with. Try them.