

Carmelized fig and Mascarpone Ice Cream with Butter Salt Pralines
Every year I look foreward to fig time. My friend Tony Massad from Massad farm in Leamington Ontario has wonderful figs. Tony is Lebanese (half my ethnicity) and to Lebanese people growing figs is as natural as tomatoes to an Italian (the other half of me). Tony's dad Max even has a lemon tree in the green house and once treated me to a homegrown lemon. It looked like a pear in shape. I felt special. In my head I visited all the market shoppers and was sure no one had a homeg