01/09/2026
Summer in Charente ☀️
Fig Edition 💜💚
My favourite season at the farm has always been the summer season. As kids, we would spend most of our summer months at the grandparents farm, playing in the fields, roaming the vegetable and flower gardens, eating more than we could count of fruits and berries, helping Mamie with the harvests, preserving and cooking or joining Papy in the field...
As an adult, this is the season I love to return to the farm for a well deserved break, quality time with family, long walks in nature, and some simple yet delicious food.
End of August/beginning of September is fig season: red and white, we harvest more than we can eat. We eat them for breakfast, as a snack, as a dessert, in cakes and tarts, we cook them in jams and chutneys. Recently our neighbour brought us a jar of the most delicious version to date: white figs in vinegar. With toasted bread and foie gras, that was... 🤤
1. One of my favourite spots - shielding under the grapevine canopy
2. Figs not yet ready to be harvested
3. Harvest of the day
4-5. Morning harvest, just in time for breakfast
7. Peaches and figs clafoutis
8. Garden hook is out - time to get those fruits on the higher branches
9. Delicious snack
10. Almond cream, figs compote, fresh figs and yogurt tart
Every year I come back to London with new recipes and ideas of how to make the most of this delicious fruit for the rest of the season: used in salads, homemade fig butter, pickled, prepared in chutneys and jams or countless variations of desserts. They will pop up in the Marie et Marcelle's menu for the next couple of weeks