There are certain things growing in the garden that you look at every year and think, surely I could do something with that. Fig leaves are one of mine. We all get terribly excited about the figs themselves. We wait for them to ripen, eat them with cheese, put them in tarts, roast them, turn them into chutney and generally make a great fuss of them. Meanwhile, the poor leaves are just standing there. So I started wondering what would happen if I brought them into the kitchen