{"id":6538,"date":"2011-07-19T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2011-07-19T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:41:33","slug":"bacon-wrapped-figs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/bacon-wrapped-figs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon Wrapped Figs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figs are still new territory for me.\u00c2\u00a0 My first experience with figs was using fig preserves in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/fig-prosciutto-pizza-with-arugula\/\">Fig Prosciutto Pizza with Arugula<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Until last week, I&#8217;d never actually tried fresh figs.\u00c2\u00a0 Then a box of figs was included in my co-op share (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawfullyorganic.com\/index.php\">Rawfully Organic<\/a>, for you locals that are interested).\u00c2\u00a0 After trying a few of the fresh figs, I decided to recreate an appetizer I had at a restaurant that used dates, bacon, and goat cheese.\u00c2\u00a0 Only I used figs instead.\u00c2\u00a0 And oh my!\u00c2\u00a0 These were some heavenly little bites!\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t stop eating them!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bacon-Wrapped-Figs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6541\" title=\"Bacon Wrapped Figs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bacon-Wrapped-Figs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bacon-Wrapped-Figs.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bacon-Wrapped-Figs-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Bacon Wrapped Figs<\/h4>\n<p>recipe by me<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 pint of fresh figs (mine were small figs)<\/li>\n<li> 5 slices of bacon<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup of goat cheese<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup honey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.\u00c2\u00a0 Slice each fig in half, remove stem, and place on a greased cookie sheet.\u00c2\u00a0 Top each fig half with a 1\/2 teaspoon of goat cheese.\u00c2\u00a0 Slice bacon in half lengthwise, then cut each strip into 4 or 5 2&#8243; strips (just make sure the strips are long enough to wrap around the width of your figs).\u00c2\u00a0 Wrap each fig in bacon, pressing it down slightly into the goat cheese, and wrapping the ends under the fig.\u00c2\u00a0 Drizzle all of the figs generously with honey.\u00c2\u00a0 Bake for 15-20 minutes, until bacon has reached your desired crispiness (I like mine crispy, but I probably cooked a little too long!).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Have you tasted figs?\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s your favorite way to use them?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/bacon-wrapped-figs\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figs are still new territory for me.\u00c2\u00a0 My first experience with figs was using fig preserves in my Fig Prosciutto Pizza with Arugula.\u00c2\u00a0 Until last week, I&#8217;d never actually tried fresh figs.\u00c2\u00a0 Then a box of figs was included in my co-op share (Rawfully Organic, for you locals that are interested).\u00c2\u00a0 After trying a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appetizer","category-pork","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6544,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}