Saturday, May 21, 2011

Where I've Been ...More Dental Fun and Easy Pickled Cherries

   It's been quite the weekend so far. I had more dental surgery on Friday, prepping for a couple of implants. During the first surgery last Fall, bone grafts etc were required. This time it's a lot easier and my new choppers should be in in a couple of months. However I was a bit snoozy yesterday after surgery as I discovered last night when Alan showed me these. I decided once I was home I would be too tired to read and so decided to watch some HBOGO on my iPad. Alan came in a bit later to check on me to find the movie running along merrily. I however, was out like a light.
   In preparation for all this dental whirlwind, I've been doing a lot of cooking, and I'll be posting my squash dessert tomorrow. Meanwhile as I emerge from the fog of good drugs the dentist gave me, I thought I'd pass along a cherry pickling recipe I'd put up a year or so ago. This all came about because of a Twitter conversation with Master Chef Jon Rowley  a week or so ago after I'd posted a piece on the wonderful local cherries I'd snagged at our Sonoma Farmers Market.
   I mentioned pickling them and he said that he'd never heard about doing that. Neither had I before I tried it a few years ago. Turns out one can pickle almost anything! There are a wealth of cherry pickling recipes out there and of all I saw, these were my favorites. After I received a few requests from people for the recipe, I thought I'd re-post it Here for those of you who have cherries coming into season. One of the recipes is for sweet and spicy cherries (perfect for Manhattans I've been informed by those who have tried them.) The other recipe is for tart and savory cherries.


Pickled Cherries



 Next up, I'll be posting about a nifty little dessert made with squash that surprised even me. Follow along on Twitter @kathygori

22 comments :

  1. Still have mine in the refrig. Hope you are feeling good today!

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  2. @Janis, much better since this afternoon

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  3. Best of luck with the new choppers!! Looks like you needed the well-deserved rest!

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  4. Good luck with your surgery. I have never heard of pickling cherries, although I LOVE them fresh, so I suppose pickled will be wonderful too. Thanks for sharing. I'm bookmarking the recipe to try very soon!

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  5. Dental surgery can be painful, but so vital to general health. Those cherries look delicious!

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  6. I hope you do great on your surgery. I love cherries and I think pickled cherries are awesome too. Do you make Cherry jams too?

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  7. Thanks ... My surgery was last year and everything went very well

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  8. Those cherries that you made look yummy!Good to know that your surgery went well Kathy. Best Regards.

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    1. Pickled cherries are a good treat after a successful dental surgery. Time to eat those favorite foods!

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  9. These cherries look magnificent. who would have thought you could pickle cherries.

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    1. Pickled cherries are practiced centuries ago, though not so widely used. The process of making these is not that hard.

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  10. That is really true indeed. After a successful surgery and abstinence from eating sweets, it is good to treat ourselves with this pickled cherries. That will conquer all our cravings for sweets.

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  11. Cherries are sweet and it's even sweeter to eat cherries after a successful dental surgery and a non-complication recovery.

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  12. I heard that they also use biodegradable plastic bags in packing their cherries.

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  14. I love cherries too. I undergone dental implants a year ago and it was a very excruciating experience at first. However, I am very happy with the results of the implants. I have a very nice set of teeth now.

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    1. Good to know that the surgery went well with you. These kinds of procedure only sound scary but in fact they are almost painless and worth all that effort.

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  15. I had a dental surgery (mini implants)last month, and it's not that painful. Maybe because I have a higher threshold to pain. Anyway, I love my new set of teeth. They look perfectly straight.

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  16. Hey Hey Hey! Cherries and choppers! Now that's a combo of pleaseure...

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  17. I have a scheduled wisdom tooth extraction with my dentist in los angeles and I'm already stocking up on ice cream and smoothie ingredients. Hope you had a psychedelic rest away from the pain.

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    1. My dentist was a maxiliofacial surgeon who was recommended by my long time dentist. He'd operated on several friends of mine

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