Plums

Lovely plums from our beautiful Japanese plum tree. This is the second year this tree has given us delicious, sweet, juicy plums. Two years ago was the first time we ate plums from this lovely little tree. Then last year we were disappointed that there were none. So I'm thinking it might bear fruit every other year. Once we eat our fill and feed some to the chickens (they love them as much as we do) I'm going to make a batch of "Plums in Vanilla Syrup", a recipe from a fairly new canning book called Tart and Sweet written by Kelly Geary and Jessie Knadler. This book caught my eye last year as it's written by two talented, young women. Kelly is an award winning young chef from NYC and Jessie is a well published young writer from VA. Together they come up with tantalizing and creative recipes for putting up small batches of summer's harvest. They see that canning is going through a renaissance as they put it and they are inspirational in helping modernize the flavors of canning. Here's a link to their book: http://www.amazon.com/Tart-Sweet-Canning-Pickling-Recipes/dp/1605293822/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344127706&sr=8-1&keywords=tart+and+sweet Hope you are able to enjoy some delicious and nutritious food from a garden. Keep pulling those weeds, picking your ripe produce, and enjoying them any way you can. Mary