A Speedy Approach to Cooking With Cherries

Any type of cherry pitters better than others?

I love fruit more than any other food in the world, and summer fruits are the best. Of all summer fruit cherries are the ultimate in taste. It's a sin to mangle this fruit of the gods by cooking, baking, grilling or smoking it. The taste of a fresh cherry - white or red - cannot be beat. No sugar addition is needed either. And preparing it is a breeze.

I feel your pain pitting cherries! I don't know if I'll get the cherry pitter, but it's a beautiful solution. I'm sure it makes so many recipes better. Inspired me to try something new this week.

Made me go out and buy a pitter, and found one that does 4 at a time, and it actually worked.

Made it last night and loved it.

Any ideas on a substitution for brandy? I don't keep it in the house and am too lazy to buy some for one recipe.

And nothing about the health benefits of Cherries?! For shame! But nothing like where I just read another article recently written in the Times, by a Doctor no less, where he unbelievably claimed that obesity is not necessarily a result of lifestyle, and made no mention of the benefits of the sun! Indeed, we are on our own out there today! I need a cherry, and more than one!!!

What on earth? Pitting cherries for pies? For one, you're using the wrong kind of cherries. Sweet cherries have no business in pie or tarts or anything baked. That is the job of tart cherries, which you can buy, pitted, in your grocer's freezer.

Thanks for the reminder to use cherries in savory dishes. I made the duck with cherries recipe you referred to. Sooooo gooooooood. This is what seasonal cooking is all about.

Cherries also freeze well. Pit a couple pounds and freeze them in bags of 20.

And a cherry-pitter does double duty, as an olive-pitter. . .

Seems to be a very heavy meal for summer. Better to grill the pork chops and save the cloyingly rich cherry sauce for autumn.