Comments on: Plum Crumble with Oats

By: miriel

miriel — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:24:09 +0000

we had some almost overripe plums here that no one wanted to eat and by fate stumbled on your post while googling plums. i modified the crumble recipe a bit to suit what i had at hand but still turned out delicious (though a bit too sweet, i should cut down the sugar). here’s a link to the photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/weye/2806380215/

thanks again!

By: tulip

tulip — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:26:26 +0000

This is interesting, just last weekend I made Berry Crumbles. A friend from California gave me some punnets of different berries, it was delish. What I did was I lined the dish with crumbles then poured the lemonized fruits then topped with more crumbles.Then served with vanilla ice cream…yummy!!Parang pie na! hehehe My niece’s loved it.
I like plums and I’m delighted finding it at the Rustan’s supermarket for a cheaper price than at the Salcedo market but I never tried cooking with plums. I have to try this and probably plum tart too! Thanks for giving me an idea how to enjoy plums!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:59:43 +0000

I can alter computer code! I have been mired in minutiaie so that the posts come out looking like they used to. I’m getting there… Naz, I hope you like the budbud kabogs. Nila, this is about as fancy as I get with plums. The only other thing I like to make is a plum tart. And my sister makes brilliant damson plum jam. Booey, in the Philippines, most plums are imported underripe. I look for the firm ones that have nice skins…then the trick is, DO NOT refrigerate them. Either keep them on the kitchen counter or place them in a loosely sealed paper bag for a day or two until they start to ripen and you smell them. That’s the best you can do over here when the plums are so far from home. But I have to say, the crumble above turned out brilliantly so I got pretty good plums at Rustan’s grocery. Fried neurons, with all the fruit in your area you might want to try an APRICOT crumble…yum! Apicio, I too look for the homier desserts as their flavors seem purer to me… the towering desserts are best left for restaurants…but wait, keep an eye out for towering dried fish out soon… Any chance that kabog-kabog spot near Samat is near that huge cross to commemorate the Death March or WWII? Wilson, that reminds me, I have nearly expiring peaches and apricots canned in the pantry… millet, follow ripening instruction above. Christine, it was superb warm and oddly, I even like it cold two days later! Elna, yes, there are imported plums when they are at the height of the season in California…

By: Elna

Elna — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:37:31 +0000

I love plum crumble. Yum!!! I didn’t know you can get plums in Manila nowadays.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:57:05 +0000

Yum! I love crumbles, crisps, cobblers. Call it what you want, the combination of fruit and the oat and/or sugar crunch topping is delicious. I wish I could reach into the screen and get a spoonful of your plum crumble!

By: millet

millet — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:42:38 +0000

same as booey, i always seem to get tasteless plums, i’ve given up on them for the moment. but the ones in your photos look absolutely scrumtious! a mango-strawberry crumble might be good, too. i like to serve warm apple crumble with good vanilla ice cream.

By: Wilson Cariaga

Wilson Cariaga — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:13:27 +0000

yummy. . . I always do peach crumble at home using canned peaches, very easy to make. . . canned peaches were on sale at hi-top supermarket the past months, 40 pesos per can. . . thats why I always purchase, the brand is JemJ and for me it’s far better than the pricey del monte which has very fragile peach halves. . .

By: Apicio

Apicio — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:00:36 +0000

I like humble homey desserts like this, something that does not call for multiple components requiring meticulous assembly into tottering towers that colapse as soon as you dislodge a wrong element. Richard Saxâ€™s Classic Home Desserts is my mother lode.

Glad the misunderstanding has been quickly smoothed over although enjoyed the fleeting disturbance. There is an area close to Mount Samat where the ground that does not give you a thud when you stump your feet but rather a resonant echo. The place is called Kabog-kabog, different from what we call bats which is kabag-kabag.

By: fried-neurons

fried-neurons — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:00:27 +0000

I make crumbles quite often. Apple crumbles, anyway. Sometimes peach. I will try plum next time.

By: Booey

Booey — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:44:26 +0000

I love plums but cant seem to pick “ripe” ones (based on plums i had in the States one summer)…any tips on how to pick good ones from the bunch? i always seem to get firm but tasteless (neither sweet nor sour) plums…