More Red Gold....

Good day, friends!

Remember last week when I shared my new cherry pitter with you?

Well, here at Heaven's Walk, it's been getting a lot of use! I'm so glad I invested in one....

....I think.....

Hubby picked a whole bucket of white sweet cherries this past weekend, and told me he stopped at one bucket because he knew I'd be pitting til the cows came home if he didn't.

So guess how I spent my Saturday afternoon? 

But a few more quarts in the freezer did my heart good -- and turned my hands a very attractive orangey-red color to boot.

This morning while I was outside letting the girls out for a few minutes in the warm, muggy air to do their 'business' before retreating back into the AC, I noticed how the cherry tree behind the garage was laden with deep red gold.  Dark, sweet ones this time. The branches were hanging low because of the amount of cherries on them.

Time for me to get busy, sisters!

Luckily, I didn't have to climb any tall, creaky ladders to pick.  I just stood beneath the tree and pulled the branches down one by one, grabbing handfuls of those sweet treats to throw in the pickin' pot.

That wonderful old tree gave up another bucketful of red gold, as we're fondly calling them now. I froze about four more quarts and reserved a bowlful for our dessert tonight.

Now, I suppose I could get really creative and imaginative and Betty Crocker-ish and whip up a dish of cherry cobbler or something.

But like I've admitted before...and I'll admit again...

I am not a cook nor a baker. 

I was not born with one single gene remotely resembling a gal who loves to throw flour and sugar around her kitchen. 

Nope.

Oh sure, I could throw flour and sugar around my kitchen...
 

for fun...

Give me something to paint or redecorate or make pretty, and I'm right there with ya.  

But, please - you can handle the baking department. 

Unless, of course, you want me to throw flour and sugar at you

(which might me fun.........for me).

So, we'll just have these juicy treats in our fav vanilla yogurt again tonight and consider it a healthy decision - and a much better choice for the benefit of our kitchen clean up crew (yeah, that's me).

But just to surprise my hubby and probably throw him for a loop, if you have any really easy cherry dessert recipes

(and you know I mean reeeeally easy)

I'd love to have you share them with me.

And I promise, I won't make you clean up the kitchen.

 {Hugs} til next time

~ laurie