What to do with cherries........

You eat 'em of course! Seriously, I found this recipe online and just had to try it out. Well, Russ very often becomes my tester. Any time I am up to see him I like to experiment with a new (sometimes old) recipe. I will have to dig up that recipe for lemon bars. Even Uncle Emery liked them! Grandma told me that Emery didn't like lemon desserts, but he decided to try a piece and thought it was pretty tasty! Russ loved them too. In that case, it was a recipe my mom had made for years! This time I thought I would try a recipe that I found about a year ago. My mom had picked a couple baskets of cherries off the tree in Russ's yard, and I decided to make a cherry clafouti out of them.

Well the funny thing about cherries is that before you can use them, you have to pit them. Since Russ didn't have a working cherry pitter, here's how we had to do them:


We made a mess of ourselves and had a blast! Somehow I managed to get cherry juice up my nose! Note to self: wear an old shirt when doing this. I had spots all over my tank top. Fortunately they all came out.

We had a nice bowlful of cherries afterward even if Russ did eat a few while pitting. :)

Too bad I don't have a photo of the finished result, but Russ and I really enjoyed this dessert. It was super simple to make. All you need is a pan and a blender!