(((Hangs head in shame))) I can't remember the last time I participated in Sugar High Friday(I fear it was all the way back when I made mini homemade Pop Tarts). But when I saw that my friend and fellow hockey lover Ivonne over at Cream Puffs in Venice was hosting, I had to step up and find the time to participate. She chose figs. I envisioned some glorious tart over flowing with fresh figs...that was until I went in search of them. No fresh figs at my Farmers Market or my go to produce store. Boo. Okay, plan B. Dried figs. Again, nothing at the Farmers Market and when I asked a worker at my go to store where were the dried figs...he said they didn't carry them. I went to several grocery stores with no avail. I started to panic and had small nightmare flashes of me having to buy Fig Newtons and scrape out the filling and do something with that. Luckily, my brain got to thinking...maybe my go to store has them and the person I asked just didn't know. That was pretty much the case. … [Read more...]