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Wild about Cherries

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The plan was just to go into my local Aldis, get the shredded cheddar and a half gallon of milk.  I swear.

You know those big cardboard boxes that usually are full of watermelon at this time of year?  Or all those bags of freezee-pops?  Well, right inside the door was a big cardboard box of cherries.  Bag after bag of gorgeous cherries and at a very good price I might add.  I was powerless.

Yesterday I pitted all the cherries from one of the bags – chopped up the amount was exactly what I needed for a batch of cherry freezer jam – 6 and a half jars.  Fairly quick but the messiest of all the jams I make.  I ended up using my Vidalia chopper – it made just the right-sized bits for the jam and it also didn’t spew cherry juice all over the place. 

But here’s the kicker; you all know that I didn’t just buy one bag of cherries.  I’ve never actually made cherry jam before so wasn’t sure exactly how many cherries I needed.  Well now I know.  With YA out of town for work, it’s just me and that whole bag of cherries. I suppose I could make more jam but I’m already pushing the limit of how much jam I can eat in a year.

What should I do with all these cherries?

39 thoughts on “Wild about Cherries”

    1. They’re sweet, but I couldn’t say for sure if they’re Bing or not. I’m not a cherry connoisseur.

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  6. We love the red Flathead cherries from Montana.There aren’t any this year as a sudden cold snap froze all the cherry blossoms. We will be ok with the Washington cherries. We also had some great Rainier cherries earlier from the fruit truck.. The Greens Cookbook has a wonderful cherry- apricot crumble recipe.

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    1. I did see that Cherry apricot crumble recipe. I’m also pondering whether I can replicate the cherry blueberry bread that Great Harvest makes.

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  7. I have given up making jam and jelly as there always is too much and we just can’t eat it all up. We have Beta variety grapes growing up our pergola. They are dark purple and very tart. They are perfect for jelly, but we just leave them for the birds. We will focus on freezing chard, green beans, Hidatsa Shield Figure shell out beans, and eggplant from the garden for winter use, and canning tomatoes. We have many quarts of home canned tomato puree left from last year , so this year’s tomatoes will be canned whole.

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  8. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    I am at an Arboretum/Master Gardener tour this mornning, volunteering. See you later.

    Phoebe is again eating robustly this morning, and getting around not normally, but in an improved manner. Going up stairs is a challenge for her.

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  11. Three words: Rødgrød med fløde. Easy to make, and tastes wonderful. You may (or may not) recall, Lisa brought a bowl to my “garden party” after my fall.

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  12. I can tell you from experience not to eat too many. I drank an entire bottle of cherry juice once and I quickly regretted it. It was so yummy…

    I like Jacque’s suggestion of giving jars of cherry jam for gifts.

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  13. My glucose etc. numbers, which were always good, started rising right at the time I developed the heart issues. I am being careful. Cherries have never been a temptation. Went to Door County twice in height of cherry season and never ate a one. Get blood work done next week so see if I have had any impact in seven weeks.

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      2. Evening. We’re sitting in the quiet by candlelight. Power went off about an hour ago.
        Daughter is *very* put out about it. We’re kind of enjoying it. Glad the weather has cooled off.

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