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 I get into ruts with my fruit buying. A bunch of bananas, a sack of gala apples, sometimes purple grapes, and then I toddle off into the sunset, blind to all the glorious bounty nature has to offer me. Oh, I have been such a fool. And oh, I am grateful to have seen the error of my ways. Yesterday, at the grocery store, I hefted up a sack of strangely expensive grapes, tossed them into my cart. I looked at the bag, thought, those are weird stems, for grapes, and then realized what I had grabbed was actually a bag full of cherries. Crazy! I almost put them back. Even crazier! But I decided to go ahead and take a wacky chance, and now my fingers and lips are stained red because I cannot stop eating them. They are sweet and crisp and cold from the fridge. Straight out of a bowl, they are the perfect summer breakfast; eating them is a tactile pleasure--plucking off the stem with a tiny snap, biting into the soft flesh and coaxing out the pit with your tongue. They are so sweet and perfect, I am convinced they cannot be good for me--but cherries are high in potassium, vitamins C and B, and have a ton of antioxidants. Cherries may help arthritis, could prevent cancer, and taste unbelievable in pies. But they're best straight out of the bag. Can you believe they're only around May through July? I have so much time to make up for. 6 CommentsLeave a comment |
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I love cherries, too, but they're just way too expensive.
Just finished a bag myself. They just say summer to me.
Though I won't pay more than $3.99 a pound for them, they are worth any price up to that, because they are such dynamite little nutrition bombs.
Not me - I'm willing to get spendy with the cherries as long as they look perfect - dark and firm and sweet. Right now I'm munching on free cherries - my brother picked them at his house in Michigan.
Ah, but ('round here anyway) when they are more than four a pound, it's usually because they are out of season, and therefore not perfect- dark and firm and sweet.
A paradox, how they are cheapest when at their best.
And how about a shout-out for Ranier cherries?
I've been doing the same thing with cherries-- eating them constantly-- and I agree they're worth paying almost anything for when they're really delicious. I spent one summer in northern Michigan (on a cherry farm!) and got hooked for life!
You guys, you can keep your cherry love going in the off-season with the magic of the freezer! Unsweetened frozen cherries, though best eaten differently than fresh (e.g. heated up in the micro and used to top oatmeal), they are just as delicious. And they are usually alraedy pitted!