Pan de Higo and Miscellaneous Food Musings

Someone found this site looking for "pan de higo recipe." Unfortunately I do not have one, but it would be something worth experimenting with. At worst it will not hold together and you will have a sticky mess of figs and almonds. No big deal. You just chop it up and use it as a cookie filling. I am not sure if I would try to make one using fresh figs or dried figs rehydrated in marsala (yum!).

My cooking priorities are pretty much set for the week:

1. Eat up leftovers from San Fermin, from Tuesday's risotto, and from the carnitas, salsa verde, guacamole and chips I made last night.

2. Cook up the veggies that I bought at the farmers' market.

3. MUST get out this weekend and pick walnuts. It will be too late in not that much time, and I will run out of nocino and have to do without for at least a year if I do not get this done.

4. Sweeten the current batch of limoncino.

5. Then, next week is Melanie's birthday week, so her requests definitely take priority.

So, experimenting with pan de higo will probably not happen for at least a week. I am sorry. I will dutifully report any results once I do it. I will not try to simply replicate the delicious pan de higo that I can buy from Spain. It is not expensive enough for me to want to take the effort to just make a clone. I will definitely be shooting for improvement.

Meanwhile, it looks like the comments are down, and I still am looking for Day of the Dead material. I have found some stuff, but the vast majority of what I have run accross is either completely ignorant of or hostile to Catholic traditions (when I get this thing written, I will write on here about the nonsense I have found). So, if you know of anything from a solid Catholic perspective (or at least by someone who is not an idiot when it comes to understanding Catholic theology and practice), please email me at EKeilholtz [ a t ] aol [ d o t ] com. Thank you!