Plum Jam with Cinnamon Pancakes

"Stone Fruits" are not the most attractive term to reference fruit. However, these fruits - plums, peaches and cherries - are in many cases the best of the summer season. For some reason, I never liked plums as a child growing up. It is the one fruit I remember not liking. My sister who was considered the "picky eater" loved them. So as I was perusing the fresh fruit at Greenlife, I saw the beautiful plums and decided it was time we made up.

At first I made some skillet jam with black plums. And then I decided to add them on top of some cinnamon pancakes for my weekend breakfast. I found that cinnamon complimented the plums very well.

It was a great breakfast to reunite with this particularly wonderful stone fruit. I can't wait to continue this courtship.

Plum Jam

6 plums roughly chopped

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup sugar

Juice of 1 lemon

Add all ingredients in a skillet and cook on medium until plums fall apart and mixture reduces (about 20 minutes) and thickens.

Cinnamon Pancakes

2 cups self rising flour

2 eggs

2 cups buttermilk

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Combine ingredients and whisk in a mixing bowl. Cook in a skillet with 1 tbsp of butter on medium. Makes roughly 8 large pancakes or 16 small. Pour plum jam on top.