The Weekly Share

My 2nd trip to Cherry Hill Orchard this past week was a success.  My 1st attempt to pick cherries was met with whole trees of split and rotted fruit.  But 4 days of hot, dry weather allowed those cherries that had been unripe on Monday to ripen to perfection by Thursday!  The dark, sweet cherries were a lost cause.  They ripened earliest.  The ones I picked on Thursday were light, sweet cherries.  They are sweet and juicy with more of a bright red skin, rather than the deep purply-red of the dark sweets.

beautiful light sweet cherries

I picked 9.2 lbs.  Some of those are going to my mother-in-law, since she struck out with me on Monday.  The rest…  Well, I’m sure we’ll eat some just as they are.  I will freeze some.  I will coat some in chocolate (Mmmmmm!).  I will soak some in rum (MMMMMMM!).  Maybe I will coat some rum cherries in chocolate (OMG!)

Yum!