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Posts tagged “plum”

Justifiably Classic Recipe: Marian Burros' Plum Torte
Recipe Reviews

We're wild about plum desserts. The plum has enough tang to stay interesting in a sweet dessert, and it also tends to bake into a jammy, gooey texture we adore. So we just had to try this totally clas...

Juicy Plums: Eight Lovely Dishes To Make With Plums

Dripping juicy, sweet and black, red and purple, small and fragrant — plums are one of our favorite things about late summer. They're cheap and sweet, and they're wonderful to eat out of hand....

The Perfect Fruit by Chip Brantley
Book Review 2009

Last year Chip Brantley told me was writing a book about pluots. I know Chip through Cookthink, the really wonderful food and cooking website that he founded and runs. But I was a little dubious about...

What's the Deal With Black Velvet Apricots?

Have you seen these Black Velvet Apricots at your local market or grocery store? It seems like they're popping up everywhere this summer. We had never seen them before, so when we first noticed them a...

Recipe: Prunes Stewed in Port Wine

Prunes...excuse me, dried plums, are not the prettiest fruit in the world. They are wrinkled and black, wizened and dry like oversized raisins. They have a terrible reputation, too, as food for babies...

Handy Product: The Plum Pitter

Plums have been gracing our screens quite a bit today. (Did you get Sara Kate's email? There's plum pie involved.) So we thought we'd highlight a product that might make pitting all that stone fruit e...

Recipe: Peach, Plum, and Ginger Jam

You may remember our last attempt at this jam, when it turned out a wee bit hard. But because the flavor was so good, and because we were determined not to let the jam win, we gave it another try... ...