This post is going to be figgin’ delicious! HA! Get it?….ahem. As you probably have seen in your various social feeds, figs are in full force right now, popping out everywhere, from shakes to pies and upside down cakes. I don’t know what it is about them that just makes us instantly drool – they look like the fruit of the gods no? (along with pomegranate and grapes!). They are oh so romantic…hence the moody photos.

So anyways, while browsing through one of my favourite food mags (read: Bon Appétit) I found this recipe to make a bostock, which is basically a super charged french toast – actually it’s better than french toast! The original french bostock recipe is loaded with almonds, but for this twist, I added some pistachios which makes it a bit more mediterranean.

Perhaps you can even add a scoop of greek yogurt on top or froyo! Now that’s a healthy breakfast to get your day started! (why you look at me like that?!).

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Hi friends! So I just wanted to quickly pop by to say that I’m still alive and around and well and kicking and cooking. My current schedule is bursting at the seams with work but I am not going to complain – in this day and this economy it’s a good thing to have.

So yes I’m hovering around and stuff, but I haven’t had time to properly sit down and post the regular content, but hey, I made this sloppy rustic cake this morning (5:45am alarm to bake and assemble, yah…insanity) and even though it ain’t the fanciest it was SO TASTY! I used all the blackberries I picked with friends over the weekend and made the cake in a jiffy. NOTE: picking blackberries is the most amazingly painful task, you bleed, you get attacked by wasps, but the reward is SO WORTH IT.

Anyways, I didn’t post the recipe for this cake, but if you do crave it let me know and I’ll upload it! recipe coming up tonight so check back! Recipe below!

Hope you’re having a wonderful summer so far and you’re getting to do lots of fun things!

Gab.

EDIT – I had originally called it sloppy cake, then my friends were like “gurl no, say rustic, never sloppy” haha – so there.

EDIT #2 RECIPE AFTER THE JUMP!

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