Plums O' Plenty!

"What is more mortifying than 

to feel that you have missed the plum 

for want of courage to shake the tree?" 

-Logan Pearsall Smith

Last week we burrowed Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook at the Solvang Library. We hoped to use local ingredients while experimenting with the famed Waters recipes. We found a Plum Upside-Down Cake recipe which is perfect because our plum tree is plum full of plums!(Try saying that fast ten times.) You can find the recipe HERE.

Recipe Changes:

Our tree is produces Santa Rosa plums, so we did not use Elephant Heart Plums. 

We used raw whole milk.

For the batter, we used about  9 tsp stevia instead of 1 cup sugar.

Instead of all-purpose flour, we used organic whole wheat pastry flour from the bulk section at New Frontiers.

When we were kids we would shine the plums on our shirts before eating. 

The Little White Fox LOVES to steal plums!

Kale, zuchinni, eggs, turnip, snow peas, three-color bush beans, strawberries and plums.

Eggs and plums from the backyard.

Completely baked!

Ta da! We served thin slices with a dollop of McConnell's coconut ice cream (a Santa Barbara company).