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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

WIP on Wednesday - Drunken Cherries

Since it's Wed in Austrailia and I plan to be doing the same thing tomorrow after work, I decided to blog on my non-quilt activity for Work in Progress Wednesday now. 

We've had a very cold and late spring/summer in Idaho and my cherries are 3 weeks late.  We usually pick tomatoes, not cherries on the 4th of July. 

Yesterday, I posted on my Nutrition Facebook page : "I just picked a bushel of cherries from the tree in my back yard. What's your favorite thing to do with sweet cherries?"   I reported on the fate of the first half bushel on my Nutrition Blog.  But Jeri's advice to  "soak them in vodka and eat them" stuck with me all day.  So I stopped at the liquor store on the way home.



And I proceeded to work on getting a gallon-or-so of those cherries good and drunk. 
 
Mmmmm.  These are going to be really good in time for Christmas gift giving.

(If you live within a couple hundred miles of Boise, you might be able to win some of these yummies as part of a fruit & veggie challenge on the nutrition blog.  Some dried cherries are in the works for non-local winners since I've never found a satisfactory way to mail home-jarred food.)
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9 comments:

  1. quilthexleJuly 6, 2011 at 2:37 AM

    Drunk cherries ... lovely idea !! What a pity I can't jump over and have a bit of it ;-)))

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  2. MargJuly 6, 2011 at 4:24 AM

    Yumm, that sounds fabulous.
    I love cherries fresh picked from the tree, I think Drunken Cherries would be my next favourite.

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  3. BunnyJuly 6, 2011 at 5:54 AM

    What a great idea wish I was going to be on the receiving end of those cherries. Enjoy

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  4. apple blossomJuly 6, 2011 at 6:58 AM

    love Chocolate covered cherries or Cherry pie is right up there too. Your cherries look pretty. Just hopped in from WIPs

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  5. Julie FukudaJuly 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM

    In Japan we do something like that with green plums. Yummy!

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  6. RetrogirlJuly 6, 2011 at 10:06 AM

    Drunken cherries? Marjorie, you're primed & ready to go for twitter's #gdas Fridays {get drunk & sew...neither of which is actually required to join the quilter chat}. LOL

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  7. Rhonda July 6, 2011 at 5:36 PM

    cherry's from the orchards here in Oregon are just now available as well. Very late this year. My tomatoes are very late as is the rest of my garden. I only hope everything has a chance to ripen before cold weather hits us this fall.
    Your cherries look so yummy. cherry pie time. : )

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  8. Esther AliuJuly 6, 2011 at 9:41 PM

    Oh dear, that idea is stuck in my head now...drunken cherries sound fabulous - and so useful all year. I would have said jam, but this seems so much more versatile. Kirchentorte anyone?

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  9. Nancy Soutier HugginsJuly 8, 2011 at 6:38 AM

    My sister always has drunk cheeries ready for our camping trip on 4th. of July. She uses Malibu coconut rum and they are YUMMY!!!!!!

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