Vegetable Gardening

[shootingstar]

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.

[GLC1968]

Thanks, shootingstar - that's a great idea! I can even use the 5-minute bread dough for the dough without losing too much 'harvest' time! Excellent!

Yeah, I'm definitely going to bring some in to work. I just don't feel right bringing in the split ones, so there will be lots that I'll need to use up myself at home.

My dinning room table is covered with zucchini, tomatoes, cukes and now plums and soon to be apples! If the fridge weren't filled with eggs and goats milk, I'd not feel so pressured to use everything up immediately!

Bounty's a b1tch, ain't it?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

GLC- can you cut the plums into big chunks and just load them into zipper freezer bags and freeze them? Then you could use them in all kinds of ways later on.

[GLC1968]

GLC- can you cut the plums into big chunks and just load them into zipper freezer bags and freeze them? Then you could use them in all kinds of ways later on.

Yep, this is on the agenda for tonight. We will be cutting up plums and tomatoes to freeze for when I have more time for processing, oh and shredding more baseball bat zucchini too.

And I'm a bit scared as the blackberries are ripening already and it looks like another bumper crop. Eeeek!

[smilingcat]

Yep, this is on the agenda for tonight. We will be cutting up plums and tomatoes to freeze for when I have more time for processing, oh and shredding more baseball bat zucchini too.

And I'm a bit scared as the blackberries are ripening already and it looks like another bumper crop. Eeeek!

congratulation on your bounty.

[Jolt]

Yep, this is on the agenda for tonight. We will be cutting up plums and tomatoes to freeze for when I have more time for processing, oh and shredding more baseball bat zucchini too.

And I'm a bit scared as the blackberries are ripening already and it looks like another bumper crop. Eeeek!

Sounds good! As for the plums, you could probably can them--cut in half with the pits removed. I'll be doing that with pears pretty soon...

[GLC1968]

congratulation on your bounty.

Thank you!

Sounds good! As for the plums, you could probably can them--cut in half with the pits removed. I'll be doing that with pears pretty soon...

Yep, we'll definitely be doing some canning. I just don't have time at the moment and they need to be picked NOW. Actually, maybe I can do a load or two this weekend?

I knew the end of the summer was going to be harvest-overwhelming, but reality is worse than I imagined! Luckily, goats and chickens love overripe/spoiling fruits and veggies - so nothing truly goes to waste....

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I knew the end of the summer was going to be harvest-overwhelming, but reality is worse than I imagined! Luckily, goats and chickens love overripe/spoiling fruits and veggies - so nothing truly goes to waste....

And don't forget the compost pile (gasp!!) But nothing really goes to waste there either.

[Jolt]

Well, the pear canning is going to start sooner than I had anticipated. My roommate and I picked a huge basketful of pears off one of the trees today and there's probably another basket's worth ripening on that tree. Then there's another tree that is also loaded (the ones on that tree aren't ready yet). Looks like there will be some work happening tomorrow! We also just got a bunch of beets and beet greens ready to go in the freezer.