Vegetable Gardening

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Massive plum picking going on here. Big red ones - delicious eating...but there are just too many to eat before they go bad.

Does anyone have an tried and true plum recipes they'd like to share? I did a search and picked out some good ones..but I figured I'd ask here, too.

Our tree is heavily laden and was *almost* ripe when we just got our first rain of the summer. Now - the fruit is splitting so it must be picked and used STAT.

Sounds so gooood!! Cooking Light magazine has a good website which includes some plum recipes. You could do what I did the other day:

Plum focaccia/pizza- I make the dough from scratch. But since you're rooting around in your garden bounty these days , do this:
See my photo of a focaccia/pizza with yellow plums and blueberries:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ight=blueberry
1) Use premade pizze dough.
2) Stretch /roll it out on a generously oiled large cookie sheet(s).
3) Embed large slices of pitted plums all over surface of dough. Use half plum sizes. Your plums are so ripe they are juicy.
4) Sprinkle with: grated ginger root, cinnamon, cardamon/ground cloves and crushed aniseed.
5) Drizzle honey all over as a sweetener.
6) You can embed fresh blueberries at the same time, you embed plum slices into dough.
7) Bake in 450 degree F oven or higher. Takes only maximum of approx. 20 min. to bake or less.
8) Eat while still warm/nearly hot.

Slices also keep in airtight container for 2-3 days. Or you can freeze for a month or so.

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Bring a bowl of fresh ripe plums to workplace. You will be surprised how much people appreciate this over donuts! Especially when people are more health conscious. In my last workplace, another woman in our dept. had a plum tree. She brought in over 30 yellow ripe plums. They were snatched up by employees from the common kitchen.