Oh, the plums are so plentiful right now.  We only have a few more months to enjoy them so I’m hoping I can find some great ways to use up some fresh plums.

I’m not much for making jellies and jams, although I have been known to make some pretty good ones.  Plum jam is sort of a luxury, meaning we don’t usually buy it in the grocery store.  Lately, if we have any in the house it’s because some benefactor was feeling generous to us.  It’s delicious, but I’m thinking I want ideas that are somewhat more suitable for a main dish.

Plums are loaded with vitamin C which makes it a great fruit to add to your family’s diet as vitamin C has been proven to increase the absorption of iron into the body.  So, besides the antioxidant values of vitamin C, you get an iron boost.  I like plums because they’re sweet and juicy, but I guess the nutrition value is important as well!

When I did a little research into some of my old recipes and cookbooks, certain recipes keep coming up, or a variation of those recipes.  There are many mouth-watering pictures of roasted pork with different plum and apple combination glazes.  I even found one beef stew that had plums in it!

A dessert recipe that I particularly like is a simple one that I remember from long ago.  We took plums and chopped them up, put them in a pan with just enough apple cider to just cover them, and brought them to a slow simmer.  Once the flavors were all cooked together, we grated a tart apple in there and added a little ground cinnamon.  Then we let that simmer together for a while until it got thicker. The sauce was served hot over vanilla ice cream.  Yummy!

Does anyone have a particularly unusual or delicious dish that they’ve made with plums?  I would love to see what you come up with.