Good Food Matters » Blog Archive » Roasted Fig-Goat Cheese-Butter Lettuce Cups

Ingredients

• 25 leaves butter (or Boston) lettuce, washed and spun dry
• 1 11 ounce log plain goat cheese
• 8-10 strips thick slab cut bacon cooked crisp and crumbled -OR- 1/2 cup sliced toasted almonds
• 1 1/2 cups roasted figs in syrup (recipe follows)
• coarse ground black pepper
• 15 ripe figs, washed, dried and cut in half lengthwise
• 1 lemon, sliced into 10 wedges
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2-3 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar