A tasty seasonal snack

1) Spot Italian plums at market. Remember that terrific plum cake you always make. Buy three pounds.

2) Five days later, find bag of plums on counter. (Ooops.)

3) While partner changes diaper, cut plums in half, remove stones, throw into heavy saucepan. Add small chunks fresh ginger (don't bother peeling), a little cinnamon, a little sugar, a little water. Cook uncovered over low heat.

4) An hour later, plums will be mush. Transfer to plastic container and place in fridge. (Be careful to not scald or drop baby.)

5) Three days later, come down to kitchen once baby is asleep after two-and-a-half hour feed. Find plum goo in fridge.

6) Scoop 1 cup plum goo into small bowl. Microwave 1 minute at full power.

7) Top with full-fat Greek yogurt.

8) Eat before baby wakes up (and watch out for the ginger chunks).

Comments

[nate]

You can get Fage there? I don't know exactly where you are, but my impression was that it's somewhere smaller than Madison--so why can't I find Fage?!?!

[Sally Bowles]

Italian plums rock. And the feeding sessions will get shorter--at least that was our experience. Suddenly, around the 3 month mark, we seemed to have switched from 90-minute to 15-minute sessions. The sucking has become vastly more efficient, I guess. The change has been so liberating!

[Emma Jane]

How to find Fage in the middle of nowhere: first, find a reasonable-sized city not too far away. Then, find a specialty food shop that caters to the Greek community. I'm sure this place has been selling Fage since way before it was cool... (Bonus exercise: convince friends to actually make the trip for you. Works better when there's a newborn involved, of course.)

I got addicted in New York last year, where both ordinary supermarkets in the suburbs and every Korean corner store in every borough seemed to stock it. I'd kill to find this again, though. Chocolate ginger. Mmmmmmmmm.

[Leslie]

That stuff looks devastating. Where have you seen it - Whole Paycheck?

I've done the forget ingredients purchased for something more times than I can count - always good to be able to blame one's offspring!

[Academy Ma]

I was with you until "Eat before baby wakes up." I never seem to be able to make it that far...