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What Would You Do With a Case of Cherries?
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That’s right…a whole case of cherries! We’re giving away a case of cherries to five randomly selected winners and we want to know what you would do with a whole case of cherries.
Now, you may ask, how much is a case? It’s a LOT. Say, about 10 pounds. Enough to fill a kitchen sink. Make five cherry pies. Hold a cherry pit-spitting contest for the whole gang. Whatever you have in mind, it’s probably enough to make it happen…and more.
So, get busy thinking about what you would do with a case of cherries and enter your comment below by July 14th.
Stumped by the bounty? We shared our Best Cherry Recipes and some of our food blogger friends sent over their favorite cherry dishes as well. These are sure to get your creative juices flowing.
Now, let us know what you would do with a case of cherries in the comments by July 14th and, who knows, you just might be lucky enough to win!
Note: These are red Washington cherries and will be shipped directly to you from our farmer partners. Depending on availability and quality, they may be organic or conventional.
Now, you may ask, how much is a case? It’s a LOT. Say, about 10 pounds. Enough to fill a kitchen sink. Make five cherry pies. Hold a cherry pit-spitting contest for the whole gang. Whatever you have in mind, it’s probably enough to make it happen…and more.
So, get busy thinking about what you would do with a case of cherries and enter your comment below by July 14th.
Stumped by the bounty? We shared our Best Cherry Recipes and some of our food blogger friends sent over their favorite cherry dishes as well. These are sure to get your creative juices flowing.
Now, let us know what you would do with a case of cherries in the comments by July 14th and, who knows, you just might be lucky enough to win!
Note: These are red Washington cherries and will be shipped directly to you from our farmer partners. Depending on availability and quality, they may be organic or conventional.
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I would give some to my friends, then I would make 4 cherry pies with it... Freeze two of them.. and then jar the rest of the cherries so they don't go bad.. so I can use them for yummy treats the rest of the year!!!!
07/05/2010 2:34:23 PM CDT
Serve them as part of my World Cup final party. You can nervously eat cherry after cherry as a way to calm down for the full 90 minutes. Better than other "nervous" food like popcorn or peanuts.
07/05/2010 2:33:35 PM CDT
I would make a cherry pie, eat them raw, and put them in my breakfast cereal.
07/05/2010 2:25:37 PM CDT
I would eat them fresh, share with co workers and friends and make cherry sorbet with agave nectar! YUM! Cherries are my FAV! Pick me! :)
07/05/2010 2:22:16 PM CDT
First, I would eat half the case all by my lonesome. Standing in my kitchen.
Afterward, I would make cherry compote to top homemade rice pudding, Michigan Cherry Squares, a double crusted cherry pie, cherry preserves, and with the remaining cherries...smoothies galore!
07/05/2010 2:21:54 PM CDT
I would take them to my neighbor's house and ash her to show me how to can them and make pies! I would share them in canned, pie and raw form with my friends and family.
07/05/2010 2:20:01 PM CDT
I'd put them in Sangria!
07/05/2010 2:19:45 PM CDT
I would make cherry pies w homemade lattice crust....and guess what??? I never made cherry pie cause I usually eat them up b4 I get to it....by winnong a case I would have enuf 4 both
07/05/2010 2:11:45 PM CDT
Cherry Pie, Cherry Cheesecake, Cherry Muffins, cherry compote and pork chops, cherries cherries cherries!
07/05/2010 2:10:55 PM CDT
I would bake cherry pies for all my friends at work. With budget cuts the way they are, it would certainly brighten up their day!
07/05/2010 2:10:40 PM CDT
I'm into food preservation, so while we'd eat a bunch fresh, I would freeze most of them for later use. Sweet cherries in oatmeal in December...yum. I'd replenish the jam stores for my cherry-loving son.
07/05/2010 2:09:16 PM CDT
Honestly, my kids would probably eat them all before I got to do anything with them.
07/05/2010 2:07:21 PM CDT
When they were on sale, I bought a case and made bing cherry preserves, cherry syrup (which I served on crepes with mascarpone) and cherry salsa... all turned out great. If I won a case, I would make homemade maraschino cherries and pit and freeze some for eating or smoothies. :o) Yum!
07/05/2010 2:07:01 PM CDT
Make some cherry pies, cherry jam, dried cherries, freeze some and eat some. Yum!
07/05/2010 2:03:21 PM CDT
I would eat some right away. I would put some in a blender with yogurt and make smoothies. I would make cherry muffins also.
07/05/2010 2:01:28 PM CDT
If I had a case of cherries I would make old fashioned cherry conserve ( with whiskey) and can it for the church harvest bazar in October
07/05/2010 1:59:26 PM CDT
I'm up for the challenge! Cherry smoothies, chocolate-cherry ANYTHING, cherry frozen yogurt, cherry muffins, cherry cookies and just plain cherries are at the top of my list!
07/05/2010 1:58:15 PM CDT
I would make lots of pies and perserves and then give them to family and friends!! I would also eat plenty of them in their natural state!!
07/05/2010 1:57:28 PM CDT
I'm sure we would eat most of the most of them fresh, but I love canned cherries!
07/05/2010 1:57:22 PM CDT
10 lbs of cherries--- 8 lbs.off to the senior nursing and assitant living --facilites like that generally have not money left in their budgets for fresh fruit and especially cherries--and what better memory to evoke for a senior than the sweat taste of summer in a cherry-- 2lbs to bake and make cherry brandy
07/05/2010 1:55:20 PM CDT
I would wash, dry, (eat many :))and freeze them. Then, I would give them to my husband of 39 years, who so graciously makes us a yogurt, whey protein, and fruit smoothie every morning before we leave for work. What a Sweetie!~
07/05/2010 1:55:06 PM CDT
Aside from how many I would eat by the handful, I would love to try the cherry pancakes a friend recently suggested. I also have a home business where I have clients coming to see me, I would definitely be sharing with them... wouldn't that be a great take home gift after a spa treatment! :D
07/05/2010 1:53:52 PM CDT
Ooh...cherry cobbler, for sure...and I'd get to try making so many new recipes!! That is, if I can manage not to eat too many of them plain...mmmmm.
07/05/2010 1:50:45 PM CDT
A whole case. WOW. I would eat a bunch fresh, (my husband adores cherries!) I would share a bunch with the moms at the single mom's ministry where i volunteer and then I would can a bunch for Christmas presents. Just last week I made a fabulous Cherry-Amaretto jam. So, I'd make more of that, then make some spiced cherry jam and some cherry-orange conserve. Also probably some cherry pie filling and then whatever is left over, I'd freeze! Oh, wait-I'd make cherry vanilla ice cream too and maybe a little cherry sorbet thrown in for good measure! If there were any left after that, I'd throw them in a nice chilled glass of Prosecco and toast Whole Foods for giving me 10 pounds of cherries!
07/05/2010 1:51:54 PM CDT
I WOULD DIP THE CHERRIES IN CHOCOLATE,,,AND SHARE WITH CO WORKERS...
07/05/2010 1:02:44 PM CDT