Does anyone actually know what figgy pudding is? And why would it be eaten at Christmas, when figs are in season now?

Scary French Lady told me about a fig pudding involving puff pastry and an egg custard… it sounded great but, not having much of a sweet tooth, I wanted to find something savoury to create with my figs… And then I came across a recipe for fig and chilli tagliatelle on the BBC website.

I switched tagliatelle for linguine (I find tagliatelle weirdly slimy, but be warned: linguine is ludicrously hard to come by in Albert Heijn) and added smoked mozzarella for an extra salt/smoke taste element. Et voila: figgy pasta. Yum.