A few weeks ago, Whole Foods had an amazing one-day sale on big, juicy, sweet cherries, so I bought a few pounds with the thought that I’d figure out what to do with them later.
I wanted to try something new, and I had never made a cherry pie before. Smitten Kitchen’s recipe was simple enough that I decided to give it a go.
Pitting the cherries was actually kind of fun using my new cherry pitter. It was a bit messy, though.
I used a pie crust cutter (kind of like a cookie cutter) to cut out a cute little star in the crust, but it kind of morphed into a distant relative of a star shape while it baked. However, it was still a very pretty pie, and it tasted wonderful. That’s what matters, right? 
RH later informed me that while he doesn’t usually like cherry pie (he didn’t tell me this before I baked the pie…this is why I love him so much)—he liked the pie a lot more than he thought he would. In fact, he thought it was really good!
I’d like to try a blueberry or blackberry pie before summer’s over, and I’m definitely tackling apple pie this fall. Which means I get to make more vanilla bean ice cream too, because what is homemade pie without homemade ice cream?
by sabrina
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