Today I got two boxes of cherries at the flea market for $2.00. They were harvested yesterday and they were righteous! The Nectarines were $1.00 a pound and the avocados were even cheaper.I then went to the supermarket where corn, radishes, cucumbers, and purple lettuce were all so cheap.
I'm really looking forward to summer with all it's abundance and deliciousness.
now...what should I make with all my cherries?
We had an enrichment meeting centered on family history recently, and my mom and I made THE most incredible black forest cake to celebrate our vastly German heritage. The recipe we found online gave us the steps for a really great chocolate cake, and then said to use something totally american like cool-whip and cherry pie filling, so we threw that part out, and made a dense whipped cream from scratch and found a can of EXPENSIVE but incredible Oregon brand cherries at the grocery store and added a bit of corn starch to the juice to make a thicker cherry scrumpteousness. We then layered the cakes and the cream and cherries, topped with shaved chocolate and partook of the divinity. THAT is what I suggest!
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing a lot of cherry kuchen's around on the food sites. I want to make some, but I usually just eat my cherries raw. They seem too precious to change.
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