Baking....marble cake & cookies

My husband has recently got into cooking, and in particular baking. I don't know quite what happened...we've been together over 10 years and previously he's never showed any interest in the kitchen.

Then a few months ago, I went out to the gym one evening leaving him at home watching a TV cookery programme. And he caught the cooking bug which I didn't think could happen from the TV.

His cooking adventure is slightly curbed by lack of time but at the weekend he does try to make a least one thing.

Marble cake using Mary Berry recipe:

10 minute cookies using Hugh's recipe:

Plums, glorious plums

We're lucky to have a great plum tree in the garden. Each year, it happily provides us with handfuls of delicious plums that the kids get so excited about picking. We've no idea why it does so well as we do nothing to care for it (although it's right next to the compost bin which might help!).

And as soon as the plums are picked, they are gobbled up by the kids. It's fantastic that they are so keen to eat them but it would be nice, once in a while, to be able to use the plums to make something.

I've seen a couple of nice looking recipes such as this Plum & almond tart by Angela Hartnett and

Spicy plum & apple chutney by Sara Buenfeld. Of course, we all know they're never going to be made!!

Do you have your eye on any tasty plum recipes or does the same thing happen in your house (and it's not just plums here, it's strawberries, blueberries etc).