Monday, September 3, 2012

Plums=fresh, jam, juice, dumplings, brandy.....


Plums are Serbia's pride and joy. Aside from being eaten right off the tree (I like mine crisp and slightly sour), they're made into juice, jam, dumplings like these I've shown you before, and of course, plum brandy.

The happy plum in the second photo is my doing. That's what you do without Internet in the village where these were photographed.

How do you like your plums?

10 comments:

Luis Gomez said...

These are very nice!

Gaelyn said...

Yum to all the above.

Olivier said...

elles sont belles, et ca me donne envie d'une tarte aux prunes

J e l e n a said...

Plum dumplings but only with a special sort-Madžarka, small and sweet plums.

WieczneBG said...

It's a wonderful time for late summer fruits. Love this.

Birdman said...

Hilarious 'happy' plum. GRIN!

Daryl said...

not a huge fan of plums,but i do like the green gage

Alexa said...

Beautiful! I like mine in their purest form, but super-sweet.

TheChieftess said...

I've never had a plum as good as the ones we used to pick off the tree in our back yard when I was growing up!

Petrea Burchard said...

The best.

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