Ina Garten S 10 Minute Fig And Goat Cheese Toast Is The Ultimate Summer Appetizer

 Ina Garten / Barefoot Contessa in a kitchen counter with prepared food and holding a spoon   Credit: NBC / Getting Images



Ina Garten / Barefoot Contessa in a kitchen counter with prepared food and holding a spoon   Credit: NBC / Getting Images

Ina Garten / Barefoot Contessa in a kitchen counter with prepared food and holding a spoon Credit: NBC / Getting Images

Ina Garten / Barefoot Contessa in a kitchen counter with prepared food and holding a spoon

Credit: NBC / Getting Images

We’ve been on Team Ina for years. But in 2020, thanks to her impressive quarantine cosmos, freezer stocked with chocolate peanut butter cup gelato and can’t-miss Instagram cooking tips, our fandom for the Barefoot Contessa runs deeper than ever.

Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas Roasted Sausages, Peppers and Onions Banana Rum Trifle Black and White Cookies Boston Cream Pie

Oh yes, and the Fig and Goat Cheese Toasts she just revealed on Instagram in a tease for the book that’s now less than 3 months away from our doorsteps.

While we aren’t doing much group gathering this summer, we plan to cut this recipe in half and enjoy it for a first course for a date night in— just as we imagine Ina and Jeffrey might do.

If you can’t get fresh figs in your area just yet (fig season typically runs from August to October in most parts of the U.S.), we featured a topped toast similar to this one from Garten’s kitchen that includes dried figs instead of fresh: Goat Cheese Crostini with Fig Compote.

Whichever option you choose, we recommend pairing it with a fruit cosmo or citrusy sidecar to round out the just-like-Garten cocktail hour.

Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas

Roasted Sausages, Peppers and Onions

Banana Rum Trifle

Black and White Cookies

Boston Cream Pie