It's A Cherry Day !

    I have really been busy this last week or so. I have been going to Aldi's when they have a fruit sale and picking up pounds and pounds of good stuff to put in the freezer. The plan is I want to use them in all these new vegan recipes I am trying to perfect. I have never made a fresh cherry pie. I have always used the stuff out of the can which is kinda tart for me.
  Aldi's had cherries at $1.39 lb. I bought 12 lbs the first time. Then I found out how many pounds it takes to make jelly and decided that wasn't enough if I wanted to try pies or anything else. I bought 9 more pounds today so although I have all the other in the freezer I now have 9 lbs  to do still.
   I started out with these. Washed stems taken off and dried.

      

I bought this little doo dad from Amazon and it cost around $12. It only does 6 cherries at a time which sounds really slow. I was wondering if it would hold up being plastic but it did really good. A whole lot better than my left shoulder did any way LOL.

I went through these first 12 pounds using this little pitter in about 45 minutes. I put them in the freezer in a single layer in some cake pans and cookie sheets so they wouldn't stick. As I was putting them into gallon baggies I thought I would see what they tasted like frozen. UMMM Good ! I thought they would be hard as a rock but they made perfect little cherry popsicle's.

See how pretty they turned out ! Just beautiful ! Now it did miss a few of the pits so you do have to watch out on the larger ones but still only 45 minutes for such beauties!  

Oh yes, I gave the pits to Nikki to put in her compost pile to see if she could grow some cherry trees just for fun!
Love
Ranchmama