To make the filling, beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in the egg, followed by the almonds, flour and extract. Spread evenly in the cooled tart shell. Cut ...

This plum almond tart features sweet-tart plums and frangipane. With its tender short-crust, layers of sweet-tart plums and frangipane (the irresistible ground almond filling) this showstopper almost ...

Crumbs carry a reputation as crummy. But they can come in handy, breading chicken or bolstering meatball. Once, I watched a chef slip a layer of crumbs between fruit-tart pastry and fruit-tart fruit.

I feel like we've run the gamut when it comes to fruit this summer. .. blueberries, strawberries, peaches. Now with Labor Day upon us, the unofficial end to summer, we've got at least one more in the ...

I had a sort of plum epiphany. MacGuire’s menu included a tart made with plums, Italian plums to be specific, the oval, deep-purple ones that came out in late summer. He baked them in a puff pastry ...

A perfectly ripe plum of the perfect variety, harvested on the perfect summer day, shipped and stored in the perfect way and delivered to you when you are in the perfect frame of mind to enjoy ...

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Crumbs carry a reputation as crummy. But they can come in handy, breading chicken or bolstering meatball. Once, I watched a chef slip a layer of crumbs between fruit-tart pastry and fruit-tart fruit.