On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 6:43:12 AM UTC-10, ImStillMags wrote:
> On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 7:51:48 AM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2017-06-30 10:01 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >
> > > I pit them when making Cherry Vanilla ice cream or when adding them to a
> > > green salad or fruit salad. Not when just eating them.
> >
> > My mother used to pit and freeze sour cherries. One year she was pressed
> > for time and threw them into the freezer without pitting them. Some time
> > during the winter she took a bag of cherries out of the freezer and,
> > thinking they were pitted, made a cherry pie. You were guaranteed at
> > least one pit in every forkful of pie.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > I've not bought cherries yet this year. Still expensive and not at peak > flavor yet.
> > My wife bought some yesterday. They are pretty good. We take our dog to
> > the leash free park every day and we the road we take passes through a
> > cherry orchard. It looks like a bumper crop this year. We are hoping
> > for cloudy days because we have had so much rain. The cherries have been
> > growing steadily, but if it clears up and we have a couple hot sunny
> > days they will undergo a rapid growth spurt and burst like they did a
> > few years ago.
>
> If you can get your hands on Washington State cherries, particularly the Rainier cherry, which is a golden and pink/red cherry, to me those are the best cherries on the planet.

They certainly are pretty cherries. Someone told me they're on sale at Target for $3.99/lb. She thought that was a pretty good deal. I don't know about that but the least she could have done was offer me a bowl. Hee hee.