Stuffed Figs Appetizer

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Greetings from cold and snowy Colorado! We're renting a house up in the mountains right now, so I apologize for not being active here or on my social channels lately. We'll be home soon and I can't wait to catch up with you all when I get back (and show you the incredible view from my office window right now!) I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving with your loved ones yesterday, and if you're headed out to do a little shopping today, I hope you all stay warm and safe while bargain hunting. Today officially kicks off the Christmas season for me, and even though we have one major holiday behind us now, there's still a lot of entertaining to be had for the next 6 weeks. When we were in Frankenmuth last month, I made my traditional stop to The Cheese Haus and spent almost my entire savings on specialty cheeses. I even bought a chocolate cheese because that just seemed like something that needed to be tried. When I got home, I immediately took to my favorite source for new recipes, Golden Blossom Honey, to find great holiday recipes that included cheese. I found this Stuffed Figs Appetizer and knew that I was going to be in trouble because this sounded like an appetizer that I would want to keep the entire batch all for myself. 

 

 

I really love figs this time of the year, but like I've mentioned in the past, we don't have fresh figs available to us in the Midwest. So, this recipe worked out great for me because it calls for dried figs, which we have in abundance here. Any recipe that includes wine, figs, and cheese automatically gets my seal of approval, but after I had these assembled and taste tested, they were for sure a winner in my book. And by book I mean these will be a holiday staple in my make shift recipe book every Christmas from here on out. I do have to point out that I ended up not cutting the figs in half as the recipe states as I felt that they weren't plump enough to really hold the filling then. However, I did use my thumb to indent the top of the fig and scooped the cheese filling into the cavity that was created that way. That ended up making these the most perfect two-bite appetizers that are going to be a hit all season long.

8 dried Calimyrna figs, stemmed (look for them in the bulk section of your supermarket)
1 cup white wine
1 tablespoon GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY
3 tablespoons mascarpone cheese
3 tablespoons Gorgonzola cheese, finely crumbled
1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
1 tablespoon GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY, to drizzle

 

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If you celebrate, what was the highlight of your Thanksgiving this year?