Fig-a-liscious Crostini

(Caution: Drool alert.)

If you ever see figs at your local grocery store or farmer’s market—Grab them, please! It doesn’t matter that you’ve never used them or, hell, even tasted them before. Just listen to me and buy them.

Figs are the perfect and most impressive fruit to use as the “sweet” in a sweet and salty marriage. They are wonderful quartered with culatello, prosciutto (see photo) or even on a pizza, but here’s a recipe that will blow your fig-colored socks off.

Oh, the simplicity of life with figs.

Ingredients

• 1 wheel of Camembert (similar to Brie, found at Whole Foods, TJ’s, etc)
• 10-12 figs, washed and sliced
• 1 French baguette
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Optional: 1-2 cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced in half

Directions

1. Pre-heat oven 300 F.
2. Cover baking sheet/tray with aluminum foil (melting cheese is a pain to scrub off.)
3. Cut baguette, ½ inch slices.
4. Arrange bread slices on baking tray.
5. Rub garlic on slices of bread to softly flavor.
6. Lightly drizzle oil on bread.
7. Add a generous spread of Camembert to each slice.
8. Add sliced fig on top of Camembert.
9. Bake for 10 min or until cheese melts.
10. Serve hot.