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Tis the season for this crumble — if you can find plums (opens the original)
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When it comes to desserts, nothing is easier than a crumble made with fresh, seasonal fruit. In fall, that means one thing: plump and juicy Italian prune plums, which start ripening in August and if weâre lucky, are available through most of September. I love them for their flavor â a high sugar level makes the flesh incredibly sweet and jammy when cooked. But unlike clingstone fruits such as peaches, which never seem to want to come apart without a struggle, plums are easy to cut and quarte
Gretchen's table: This spicy stir-fry features oyster mushrooms, lemongrass and snap peas (opens the original)
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When I head to a favorite farmers market, I usually have a few very specific ingredients in mind so I can make a few very specific dishes â say, heirloom slicing tomatoes for sandwiches, corn for Mexican elote or cilantro and other fresh herbs for a bright and zesty chimichurri. This past weekend, for example, I was on the hunt for plump and juicy Italian plums so I could make one of my husbandâs favorite end-of-summer desserts: Marian Burrosâ plum torte, which has been a favorite recipe e
4 easy meals to ease back-to-school (and work) woes (opens the original)
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We have had a pretty crummy summer in Western Pennsylvania this year. If the intense heat wasnât unbearable enough, we also our fair share of drenching thunderstorms and nearly 30 tornadoes. Yet itâs still hard to believe fall is almost here. With the change of season, our bounty of local tomatoes, sweet corn and cantaloupe will soon give way to crisp fall apples, colorful root vegetables and hearty, cold-weather greens like kale and Swiss chard and crunchy, old-school veggies like cabbage t
4 easy meals to ease back-to-school (and work) woes (opens the original)
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PITTSBURGH â We have had a pretty crummy summer in Western Pennsylvania this year. If the intense heat wasnât unbearable enough, we also had our fair share of drenching thunderstorms and nearly 30 tornadoes. Yet itâs still hard to believe fall is almost here. Unlock the rest of the article with a new subscription. Your support strengthens local journalism. Subscribe now for full access to local reporting, breaking news, and more. Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm li
Gretchen's table: Pasta with sweet corn and zucchini tastes like summer (opens the original)
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One of the best parts of summer are the long and short car trips that get you out of town and into nature. Even better: The family-run farm stands featuring flowers, eggs, jams and seasonal fruit and veggies â sometimes sold from the back of a pickup truck or small shelter at the end of a dirt driveway leading back to the farm. Chief among offerings is sweet corn, which has been grown and continues to be universally loved as a staple for more than 200 years. Pennsylvania farmers grow more than
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