Kale Salad With Grilled Eggplant, White Beans and Fresh Figs [Vegan]I always love to see our beloved and talented contractor, Ted Zappia, show up...perhaps most especially when he arrives with his tools AND a bucket of plump figs fresh from his family tree. I am passionate about figs, fresh or dried, but right now the local fig trees are bursting with... I always love to see our beloved and talented contractor, Ted Zappia, show up...perhaps most especially when he arrives with his tools AND a bucket of plump figs fresh from his family tree. I am passionate about figs, fresh or dried, but right now the local fig trees are bursting with fruit, so I am all about fresh. In this one, raw kale, grilled veggies, white beans and figs are lightly coated in a hummus-based dressing inspired by a non-traditional pizza topping I recently saw in a culinary magazine.