Plum Tart




  


Plum tart with powdered sugar

 


Plum Tart before baking

  This dessert is so easy,elegant and quick!I used the frozen puff pastry, red and black plums in season right now.Drizzle with local honey before baking and sprinkle with some powdered sugar after baking. Its crisp,light,flaky serve with slightly sweetened whipped cream or good vanilla ice cream.Preheat oven to 400, leave one bag of puff pastry at room temp and roll it into rectangular square. Wash and sliced about 4-5 ripe plums arrange it shingle like--see pictures,drizzle with honey and bake for 15-20 minutes. When its done sprinkle some powdered sugar that's it!!!Absolutely elegant!

Apple Pie

4 granny smith apples, sliced thinly

1 t. cinnamon

1 t.  nutmeg

1 T. flour

juice of 1 lemon

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 premade pie crust

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix all ingredients together.

Place the bottom crust in the pie pan and add the filling.

Make a lattice on the top pie crust and brush with beaten egg.

Bake for one hour.

Serve with ice cream on top!
**I am posting this for my sister**

Guava Jelly

It is very rare here in the USA to purchase fresh guava fruit  but I tried the local grocery market HEB  and found it in the frozen section.The guavas are small and yellow like the ones my sisters and I picked at the backyard of my grandma Inang Daling for sinigang dish.So I tried it using a simple sugar and guava juice combo with a touch of lemon juice and the results is so good.


2lbs of thawed whole guava fruits
sugar
lemon juice
clean canning  jar

1.trim the edges of the fruits and cut into halves
2.cover with  just enough water and boil gently  for 30 minutes until tender
3.let it sit for another 30 minutes with out the heat
4.use a blender or food processor or food mill
5. use a strainer lined with kitchen towels or a cheese cloth and let it drip overnight in the fridge.Do not squeeze the juice or it will turn bitter.
6.measure the juice and sugar 1:1ratio  and  a small lemon juice or kalamansi juice and bring it to rolling boil. boil.Test it with chilled spoon until the right jelling consistency. Remove any scums on top.Pour into clean sterilized jar and process it into boiling water for 10 minutes.I  just store mine in the fridge  with out processing because it will be consumed with in a month or so. This recipe only produce 1 jar  of jelly anyway. Use it for pandesal with cheese or crackers or for guava cake filling in my case for pambaon sa school peanut butter and guava jelly. sarap!!

Fruit Pizza

1 tube ready made pizza dough ( found in the dairy case of grocery) or ready made pizza crust or any sugar cookies recipe shape into  round pizza (follow baking instructions)
cut upfresh fruits in season or fruit cocktail/canned peaches drained all the syrup

filling:  8 oz softened cream mix with 1/2c.sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla extract



spread filling on top of large sugar cookie or pizza crust,arrange the fruits and drizzle some honey on top .chill and serve.