Fresh Fig and Goat Cheese Flatbread Pizza

With a house full of Trader Joe's groceries, it was definitely time to get back into the kitchen.  Front and center were some beautiful figs I'd picked up. 

Figs are funny.  I used to adore them and then I read Under the Tuscan Sun.  I'll leave it at that for those that love figs.   I however, went on a fig hiatus after the book.  And then I read yet another piece on how commercially cultivated figs are not necessarily the same as wild figs.  I can't keep up with the stories and am back to eating figs when they are in season and stunningly beautiful.  Trader Joe's were exactly that.

Also coming home with me from Santa Fe were some chevre and lavash.  Figs, chevre and lavash--I suspect that I was subconciously envisioning this pizza when I placed the ingredients in my cart.  Add some fresh spinach, red onion and fresh basil and you have a pizza ready to go in 15 minutes.

This pizza is the perfect example of how culinary opposites compliment each other.  The crisp lavash is perfectly contrasted with the soft figs and spinach.  The sweet figs are balanced by tangy chevre and the bite of the red onion.  Balsamic vinegar becomes very sweet when reduced and is perfectly balanced by the sea salt.  How I love Trader Joe's.