What Friends Are For

After spending Labor Day weekend in sunny Boston with Tiff, dining well out of our means, I've come home to a much more frigid environment, where I need to stay in and cook more than I have been.  Since I've been gone for the last eight days, the fridge is empty, and I need to shop. 

The grocery store has an abundance of figs.  This triggers my somewhat recent memory of Liz's Fig-Cranberry Cobbler recipe.  Not only does it present a solution to this fig problem, but uses a spice I wish I could use much more often-- garam masala.  Like curry, no two garam masala's are the same, because they are not a single ingredient, but a complex and flavorful blend.

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