Roasted figs success!

Asked on 13 Sep 2016 by Wendy

Hi Lindsey

The grape harvest is done with for another year. We ended up with a pre harvest dinner and a post harvest dinner. In the pre harvest one we had the roast figs (using our own figs) and gorgonzola. It was brilliant, it went down very well with one or two want more cheese in future! The dessert was vanilla and strawberry pavlova without the strawberries as I couldn't find any so I used kiwi fruit.

The post dinner we did the roast Mediterranean vegetables with couscous and harissa, again a success. The dessert was the chocolate torte following your suggestions using milk instead of juice and Mascarpone and cream together. It worked very well.

All the Delia recipes were most successful but I think the figs just won by a whisker..

I wanted to let you know how things turned out.

Once again thank you for your help.

Love

Wendy x

Lindsey, Food Editor replied

Hi Wendy,

How lovely to hear from you.

What a wonderful time you’ve been having! Your grape harvest feasts sound fabulous. I bought some figs today so I might make the figs with gorgonzola and the roasted vegetable couscous salad is one of our favorites too.

It must be such a joy to use your locally sourced Italian ingredients.

Sometimes in Delia’s Restaurant in the autumn the pastry chefs do individual meringues with the vanilla mascarpone cream topped with pears baked in Marsala (but they cut the pears into wedges before they cook them). It works really well and for parties the pear can be prepared well ahead and they get even better after a few days in the fridge.

All the best

Lindsey x