Summer Plum Tarte

I always remember advice from my mother concerning food lingering in the fridge. She told me that before it dies forgotten on a shelf, gather it up to put to use, whether old fruit or scraps of dough. Recently I noticed some plums that were softening. So I proceeded...

Plum tarte

Plums remind me of summers in Switzerland under my sisters tree in her orchard in August. I still have a a week before I go and visit this year. So having a hankering for something reminiscent of her home made desserts. I decided to make my favorite  tarte au...

Zwetschken Kuchen

As some past posts make clear, I have a certain affinity for plums. Visiting my sister in Switzerland, welcome the never ending baskets full of them. And while they're delicious freshly picked off a tree, or distilled into schnapps, my preference is to put them in...