Cherry ripe

Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, Ripe I cry, Full and fair ones, Come and try!




Ow!
from slkim

so we have two cherry trees and one of them had a decent crop. nothing compared to what it should produce, but enough i thought to make a pie or some compote. we had some time this past weekend, so i decided we should pick all the cherries before they start to rot. [check out the new movie of the picking.] our neighbour, whose cherry trees have abundant crops, offered to loan me her cherry pitter. what's that? i discover it's one of those things like melon ballers - they don't come in handy every day, but once you've used it, it's indispensable.


we ended up having a bowl full of cherries and rather than making pie, i ended up making compote. pie would have consumed too much time and effort! we tried some of the compote tonight with chocolate cake and ice cream. yum!!






Cherry picking
from slkim