When we moved into our house back in 2003 we inherited a plum tree in the front yard. It had a few plums but not too many. Every year since it's gotten a few more, but never a lot. That is until this year when the tree became completely overloaded with plums. I have filled around 8 plastic grocery bags full of plums and could have filled many more. The big question was, what to do with all of those plums. Well I went to MyRecipes.com and searched for plum recipes and had some great results.
1. Plum Buckle: I have never heard of a buckle, but it is essentially a pound cake with fresh fruit across the top. It is delicious. I have made two of these and they both came out great, very easy recipe, very delicious.
2. Fresh Plum Lattice Pie: Margaret made this one and it too is delicious. Our plums are very very juicy and so this made the pie a bit problematic as it never really setup. In fact what it made me realize is that our plums would probably be better in a cobbler.
3. Grilled Chicken Breasts with Plum Salsa: I'm not kidding when I say this may be the best meat dish I've ever made. The chicken is rubbed with a brown sugar, cumin rub and the cumin and plums match up perfectly. You will want the plums to not be too ripe as they need to have a little body.
4. Plum Jam: I had never made jam before and didn't cook this enough for it to setup properly. But what I made was a fantastic ice cream sauce. The tart, sweet combination is just wonderful.
We may make a plum cobbler as we still have a whole bag of plums left, but we may be plummed out at this point.
