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It is the season for plums. It is the time for plum deliciousness.

Season for Plums

Plums make:

a perfectly delightful gift for a friend;

Plums, pretty and perfect and a delicious gift

and a beautiful, bounteous, table decoration;

Laden with Plums

;

A Vase of Plums

Plums make delectable eatables:

like gleaming, sugar-shimmering, baked compote;

Baked Plums for the Table

and rich coffee cake.

Plum Coffee Cake

[ take a slice, please do 🙂 ]

An invitation to a slice

And plums are fabulous for frivolous fool…ishness ;

: Frothy, frivolous

: Frilly

: Fools

and golden jam,

Jono’s Jam

and plums make a jolly good story, too, don’t they? 😉

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With surplus plums in the pantry, (well, they would be in the pantry, if I had one), it was time to get creative. So I was. I made my favourite plum coffee cake.

The recipe is from the Joy of Baking website http://www.joyofbaking.com/PlumCoffeeCake.html which is an excellent place to find cake recipes. I follow the recipe to the letter, but not the pan, because I don’t have a suitable round cake tin.

With the most important cooking task completed, I decided to add a few more flavours to our evening meal. Enter my spinach and rice cake which is another favourite recipe. This one comes from Very Easy Vegetarian Cookbook by Alison and Simon Holst. Again, I follow the recipe exactly, even to the baking dish, because the Holsts excel at producing precision recipes. Here is a link to their website, although I don’t think this recipe is on it, http://www.holst.co.nz/Home.aspx The main ingredients, apart from the obvious spinach and rice and tomatoes, are cottage cheese and eggs and parmesan type cheese, onion and herbs.