Tag: Plums
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Stone Fruit Crumble with Shortbread Topping & The Perfect Chair
For my father’s birthday, he asked for a fruit dessert. This is partly because he has always loved tarte tatin and other sugared fruits but also because he knows I like to cook with what’s available. Right now, we have cherries, small green sour plums that shine bright as limes when rubbed on your shirt… 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
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William Carlos Williams, Baked Plums, & Jam
This is just to say I like to eat plums* split and dusted with brown sugar perhaps a squeeze of fresh lemon or cinnamon baked at 400 until the sugars both natural and added begin to brown and bubble If I have them on hand I might also add a drop of creme fraiche or… Read more