I love cherries. We’re in mid-season, and soon they will be gone for another year, so I felt I needed to mark the occasion with a quick snap taken outside my local greengrocer’s 🙂
I’ve complained before about my disenchantment with Spanish fresh produce (you can read about it here), but cherries are a delightful exception.
Lady Of The Cakes 
Do they work well with vodka? 😉
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Is there anything that doesn’t work with vodka…?
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I haven’t found it yet if there is 😉
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Again, where is Anna when we need her?!
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Lying on a beach in Crimea? Is she still there?
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She must be… wifiless and happy 🙂
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I hope the Crimean boys are OK 😉
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I miss you guys!!!!! I found this one cafe that has decent wifi but they’re closing soon! And I spend all day long in the mountains or on horses…
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We miss you, too 🙂 BUT you need this break, so get your arse out of that caff and back onto a horse. Or a mountain. Whichever hurts less.
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Is that $3.80 a kilo? Oh, we can only dream! But I know what you mean, and even at three times the price, when they’re in season here (in Oz) I buy a handful at least to savour that essential cheeriness 🙂
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‘Cherriness’ at any cost!! 😉
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They look delicious! I think it will be a few more weeks before they’re in season around here.
If I smother them in chocolate do they still count as a serving of fruit? 🙂
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Absolutely 🙂 In fact, you’ll be adding antioxidants that way!
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I love cherries too. It’s a little early here. They are just starting and we had some frost damage from that stupid winter we went through.
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Ah yes, I remember… that horrid winter! I was in Key West all of January, and everyone was talking about blizzards in places like Atlanta. KW was spared, thank God 😉
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Excellent place to hide!
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They’re coming in season here too and I mayyy have bought a bunch and eaten them before I got home so I didn’t have to share!
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Sounds like something I would do…
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I know! eating by the punnet load…..yum yum 🙂
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Got some sitting on my kitchen counter. Their life expectancy is… let’s say, not very high 😉
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I love cherries…and Clafoutis! Yum all right….
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Claf… I had to look that up!
… I so wish I hadn’t. How am I going to get on with my work now?!
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You probably won’t…. 😉
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I bought a punnet of cherries last night in Waitrose on Marylebone High Street. Just checked – and yes, they are Spanish. Please pass on the gratitude of Londoners to Spanish cherry growers.
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I shall mention it to them. Not today, tough. All they’ll be able to think about it the bloody football!
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Mouthwatering! I can never resist the “Rainier” cherries, which are more expensive than regular ones and have a lovely mix of yellow and rose color. I end up paying a fortune… but they’re worth it.
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My faves are Picotas. They are firm. I like firm cherries. Nothing worse than cherries with a soft, half-rotten texture. Urgh!
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I always like the cherry season in Australia too. I once entered a cherry-pie eating contest in the so-called “Cherry Capital” of Australia. I wanted to write like it was an Olympic sport 😀 You can read the article here http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/food-and-wine/a-bite-of-the-cherry-20111124-1nvvl.html
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Loved the article 🙂 BTW, you got a mention in my latest post, you might even get a view or two out of it. Fingers crossed!
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The reason (of your disenchantment with Spanish fresh produce) could be that the best goods are for export! This happens not only in Spain, but everywhere…
Clear, in this circumstance even if you buy sesonal-products maybe you should go directly to the farmer: here you could choose from!
Fortunately, at least with cherries you have no problems!
Wish you a lovely day :-)c
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Where’s the cherry cake? 😉
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I’ve been thinking about that… If I eat cake first and cherries later, it’ll turn into cherry cake inside of me, won’t it?
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Lol, sounds like a fact to me!
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mmm – I need to go and get some now….
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Don’t let me stop you…
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I love cherries too – shame they are soooo expensive here!
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Waitrose cherries 🙂
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??? Waitrose cherries are cheap?
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Nope. But perfect. Each and every one of them.
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Sigh… sadly no Waitrose around here. But I will check out the market tomorrow.
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Wh…at?! No Waitrose? Where the heck do you live?! Oop North? No Booths…?
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Crimea has like 5 kinds of local cherries in season now. It’s awesome !!!
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I’M COMING OVER!!!
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They look so ripe and so sweet 🙂 Cherries are great. Here in Hungary Sour Cherries are more popular. Do They have sour cherries in Spain?
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They are not as common here, I think, the focus is chiefly on dessert cherries. Sour cherries are popular in Germany for baking and making preserves.
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