From Better Homes and Gardens

Crisp and peppery radicchio adds color to this salad recipe. The purple-red heads complement the green baby spinach leaves. Add plums, crisp-cooked bacon, and pecans to round out this side dish.

Savory Plum Salad

From Betty Crocker

Stack up fresh plums, creamy pudding and granola for a tasty hearty breakfast, a great dessert or between-meal snack.

Plum Pudding Parfaits

From Food & Wine

Ivor Simmons, Gail Simmons's father, rarely cooks, but each fall, he cans cinnamon-scented applesauce to eat during the year. Adding a few plums imparts a lovely rosy hue.

Ivor's Pink Applesauce

From Food & Wine

It's not easy to make a healthy crisp: The topping always has lots of butter and sugar. John Currence makes his streusel with a mix of oats, whole wheat flour and brown sugar, and a little butter-oil blend to keep it crumbly.

Nectarine-and-Plum Crisp with Oatmeal Streusel

From Food & Wine

The FourCoursemen's house-made guanciale (cured pork jowl) is fabulous with these tender hens, but the best part of the dish may be the pan juices, flavored with celery root and plums.

Cornish Hens with Plum-and-Leek Stuffing and Celery Root

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This tart crust is every pastry-phobe's dream: you pat it into the pan--no rolling involved.

Plum Tart with Lemon Shortbread Crust

From Fine Cooking Magazine

The cake will keep for a day, covered, at room temperature; if you keep it longer, the moisture from the plums will start to soften the streusel.

Plum Coffee Cake with Brown Sugar & Cardamom Streusel

From Better Homes and Gardens

Buy a pre-made pie shell to make this dessert come together even faster.

Triple Fruit Pie

From Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry

Puff pastry shells are served with a creamy lemon filling and wine poached fruit to make a sophisticated and scrumptious dessert.

Prosecco-Poached Fruit Tarts with Lemon Cream

From Food & Wine

For her elegant interpretation of fruit danish, Grace Parisi tosses wedges of big purple plums with sugar and cardamom, then pinches them into neat little puff pastry pockets, and bakes them.

Plum Puff Dumplings

From Food & Wine

Plum Jam

From Better Homes and Gardens

Sweet Ricotta with Amaretti and Fresh Plum Sauce

From Better Homes and Gardens

Polenta is prettied up in a citrus-infused upside-down cake sweetened with wedges of plums.

Polenta and Plum Cake

From Better Homes and Gardens

The recipe for this dessert calls for Pluots--a cross between plums and apricots. Pluots have a much higher sugar content, making them spectacularly sweet.

Big, Bigger, Biggest Plum Pies

From Better Homes and Gardens

New England slumps are topped with biscuit dumplings, which flatten or "slump" during cooking. In Cape Cod, a slump may be known as a grunt--presumably the sound the fruit makes as it bubbles on the stove.

Cherry-Plum Slump

From Better Homes and Gardens

Three popular French foods: pastry cream, tuiles (roof-tile shape cookies), and fruit compote equal one spectacular dessert!

Tuiles Towers with Spiced Fruit Compote

From Better Homes and Gardens

Ouzo, often referred to as the national drink of Greece, is an anise-flavor liqueur used in this easy fruity dessert.

Orange-Glazed Fruit with Anise Whipped Cream

From Smithfield

This pork roast recipe is great for your family or for guests and the easy ingredients are all things you can find in your house.

Roast Pork with Plum Sauce

From Family Circle

Use your favorite summer fruits in this easy dessert. In addition to plums, nectarines, and blueberries, try pears, apricots, peaches, and raspberries.

Assorted Fruit Crisp: The Jared Coffin House

From Food & Wine

A classic Italian panzanella (bread salad) combines juicy tomatoes and bread cubes. Here, Chris Cosentino swaps in stone fruits like apricots and peaches for the tomatoes. Then he pushes the dessert over the top by dolloping the "salad" with an airy zabaglione, a frothy sauce of egg yolks whipped with sweet dessert wine.

Stone-Fruit Panzanella with Zabaglione

From Food & Wine

The plums in this tangy-sweet compote are rich in vitamin C, and the milk and yogurt are great sources of calcium.

Homemade Yogurt with Plum Compote

From Food & Wine

This stunning plum-studded sabayon -- an airy custard sweetened with clover honey and Moscato -- is summer's answer to creme brulee. If you don't have Moscato on hand, any honey-inflected dessert wine will do, such as Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise or a late-harvest Riesling.

Plum-and-Honey Sabayon Gratins

From Food & Wine

Pastry chef Mitchelle Dy sautes plums in Chambord, a black raspberry liqueur, to give the succulent fruit even more sweetness and a slightly boozy edge. She then lays the plums in a puff pastry crust filled with ground almonds. The tart is gorgeous, but -- because Dy prepares the almonds in a food processor and uses store-bought puff pastry -- it's simple to make.

Almond-Plum Tart

From Better Homes and Gardens

Try this salty-sweet quick and easy dessert starring plums and (surprise!) bacon.

Bacon-and-Crumb-Topped Plum Crisp

From Better Homes and Gardens

Bring rice cakes to life with pudding and fruit to make ghoulish faces for a Halloween treat.

Rice Cake Berry Dessert