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[whitereflection]

So the other day James brought a bag of cherries home from work. Yeah, he works in an ag/enviromental lab. His coworkers leave the weirdest stuff on the 'free to take' table in their breakroom.

So these were obviously home grown, small and tart, and this afternoon I tried my hand at pitting cherries. I don't own a cherry pitter (but I think I'll pick a cheap one up), so I tried this method I found online of using a metal tip from a pastry/icing set to push the pit out. It actually worked okay, though I used the writing tip which tended to slide off the pits--I probably should have used the smallest star tip. But yeah, a mess of cherry juice everywhere, didn't seem to stain though. Ended up making cherry syrup from it all, since the skins had a lot of blemishes and bruising and that way I could just sieve the solids out. I'll have to pick up some good ice cream to serve it on.

Also made sticky rice from the recipe off a can of coconut milk (I've got a fresh mango I'll serve with), and a Thai-style peanut sauce to have with the marinated flank steak I'll do in a bit.

So, that whole thing where I cook a bunch when I feel really useless as well as guilty about not being productive and intelligent like you all? Yeah. Definitely there today, and probably a bit this whole week.


Saw this on the CakeWrecks blog, thought it was amusing considering how many on my flist are into the World Cup of late: http://www.cakewrecks.com/2010/06/our-world-cup-overfloweth.html

Comments

[octoberxsong.livejournal.com]

I have a confession to make:

I don't like cherry... well, anything. (Except my grandmother's homemade cherry ice cream, but that's different.)

Those cake wrecks had me LOL'ing so badly!!

[agent-jl36.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... that rice and mango sound awesome! I love coconut rice.

[quoth-the.livejournal.com]

CakeWrecks never fails to make me laugh like a lunatic.

[kilynn16.livejournal.com]

Have you ever tried using a bobby pin to pit cherries? It's crazy easy that way.

Something about Summer always makes me crave sticky rice like mad. Yours sounds yummy!

[cacklesthewitch.livejournal.com]

How are you not productive?! All that food sounds - well, besides delicious - like a lot of work. And delicious. (Did I mention it all sounds delicious?)

LOL those cakes are awful! But I shouldn't judge because the last time I attempted to frost a cake, it was a mess.

[kros-21.livejournal.com]

home grown cherries. nice. I guess in Rome it's impossible to find them. Unless they are imported from the country....

rise and mango? I'd like to taste that.
I love rice in any way. :)))

[lady-eilthana.livejournal.com]

*stomach grumbles*

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

Heh, I saw people recommending using a bobby pin for cherry pitting when I was looking online for how and found the pastry bag tip idea--but I have no idea if I even have bobby pins anymore. ^^; I used to, years ago, but...probably got tossed out in some previous move. XD; You can tell hair doesn't get 'done' around here often (if it's not 'just comb it' or 'pull it all back in a clip', I don't do it, heh).