Tag: fruit desserts
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Italian Plum Tart (Crostata alla Confettura di Prugne) & Finding Treasures
This is a classic southern Italian dessert, though my favorite time to eat this is in the morning. I especially like the crisp pastry and the tart plum when we’re down to the last few slices and the very last one is a bit stale, and thus crunchy and I can peck at the crumbs… Read more
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Strawberry Upside Down Cake & Old Friends
The email arrives as these things do, out of the blue for the one on the receiving end. I read, try and take it in. Our friendship breakup eight years ago was a source of pain and, moreover, left me confounded. Yes, I’d known we were flailing, growing apart – me with kids, she on… Read more
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Brown Sugar Plums & What We Leave Behind
My husband’s grandma died a few weeks ago. She escaped Germany in 1938 with a fur hat, a determination to survive, an ugly teapot, and money hidden in her vagina. True. In the interview my husband conducted with her and her husband (“Opie”), she recalled stashing “up zer, in ze woo-hoo”. She lived a… Read more