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I actually love fresh figs, but today we apparently only post complaints in the Lounge. Here we go:
You can't take a bite without crunching on a mouthful of seeds. And they are so sweet and make your fingers sticky when you try to eat them!
The real question now is: How should you actually eat them? Peel them and risk sticky fingers? I have heard that you can (should?) eat them with the peel. Not such a great idea if they have been treated with insecticides. And they are full of seeds!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: How should you actually eat them?
Roasted with honey and Ricotta, maybe some pistachios as well.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Not at work, but maybe they still have some in the store when I'm done here today.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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THat isnt a million miles from a recipe I concocted:
Cut triangles of bric pastry (the north african stuff, a bit like thick filo), toast them.
Layer up sliced goats cheese, a triangle of pastry, slice of fig, ground pistacio nut, homey, sprinkle of herbes de provence, and repeat.
When its about 6 layers, about 3 inches high, stick a tooth pick through it all to hold it together and oven bake for 10 mins.
Serve it up on lettuce with a simple dressing.
It is an amazing dish. Incredible flavour and texture.
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You probably would sooner get away with asking programming questions here than with this:
Quote: Traditionally with creme fraiche, onions and bacon. But very suitable to make the vegetarian way, like I did for this recipe.
Replacing bacon with anything sets you up for a s-storm here. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Replacing bacon with anything sets you up for a s-storm here.
No, you can replace it with more bacon - that's OK.
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OriginalGriff wrote: you can replace it with more bacon
BaconOverflowException: Endless recursion
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Bacon does not overflow: there is no limit to how much bacon you can add!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Yes, there is!
The total plant mass on the planet is limited by the amount of radiation that the planet receives from the Sun.
The total animal mass on the planet (humans included), cannot be greater than a fraction of the total plant mass on the planet.
The total mass of pigs on the planet is a small fraction of the total animal mass.
(I trust that you're not counting on PIGS IN SPACE )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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CodeWraith wrote: BaconOverflowException: Endless recur of discusion
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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RickZeeland wrote: Flammkuchen with figs
"A sweet touch of fresh figs and honey, the slightly roasted crunchy hazelnuts, the fresh but slightly strong taste of red onion and goat cheese and the always delicious fresh thyme"
Right, so not a tarte flambée at all, a goats cheese onion and fig pizza.
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With a pair of fine tweezers you can remove the seeds one by one.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Munch, munch, crunch... What?
Too late.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Just to be contrarian, you could try getting some of these seedless figs.
(Patented, no less!)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Leave the peel on, cut vertically into segments (quarters, sixths or eighths according to size) and enjoy. If you wish to be really genteel you can use a knife and fork.
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Peel a fig? Are you serious?
Cool it. Cut open to see nobody lives in it and eat...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Eat the skin et al.
Anyway, you know they are fertilised by a wasp, that dies inside it dont you?
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In the UK fig trees can often be found growing wild near sewage treatment plants, as the seed pass right through you!
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Chris Quinn wrote: In the UK
The label did not state a sewage plant in England as origin. No wonder the Brits want to leave the EU.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I generally eat figs in a newton but then I am American.
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Nothing compared to eating them fresh.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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If I want a fig I'll stand under a fig tree and wait for one to fall into my mouth.
I don't think there are fig trees in the area, but there are date trees and when I want a date I use a somewhat different approach.
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Then let's hope it's not a horse fig 
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Hi All,
I am trying to get some hardware working for a test rig I am building. I needed to monitor some network traffic and take action (activate a bit of safety hardware) when it dropped/rejected a certain amount of data. Thinking it would be easier to use a Raspberry Pi rather than a laptop I sat down on Friday and created a Python (?) script that turned on an LED if it was good and a different one it was a bad packet, while counting the number of bad ones. If the number of bad packets exceeded a limit the hardware would be activated. However the memory card got corrupted. Now it will only boot to Kernel Panic, new memory card, same issue, use Pi straight out of box. Kernel panic, I seem to only be able to get a Kernel panic now. I have tested various points on the Pi for voltages, all seem correct what and if I borrow the card from another Pi it will boot on the Pi that has the Kernel panic. So I wonder if I copy that image from the card to my card will it boot?
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