So last week when I went grocery shopping, there were cherries on sale. I'm not very impulsive when it comes to money for the most part, but food being on sale activates too many parts of my brain to pass up. I see that there's a deal and that lights up my brain a little bit. Then I see it's a yummy food. Then I see that it's something that isn't horrible for my health. Then I think "Huh if it's on sale that must mean it's going bad soon, I don't want insert food here to go to waste!". Anyways, I got 3 pounds of cherries for $5 and I gotta use them up. I actually like cherries quite a bit, however the autist in me needs them to be at the perfect stage for me to enjoy them regularly, and I've had these cherries in my fridge too long for that.
However, not all is lost. I've been in culinary my entire adult life so I'm good about using the stuff that's going bad soon. My girlfriend doesn't really drink anything other than water and coffee, except she does love a cherry limeade after work. So here's my plan - I'm gonna pit all the cherries and put them in a pot with some water and sugar and boil them to make a cherry syrup. Then, I'm going to strain the cherries and smash them up to make something spreadable out of the solids, probably add some orange. A cherry and orange PB&J sounds absolutely phenomenal, but I'm not sure if my idea to use the solids will work out so well since I am going to be boiling out a lot of the flavor. Oh well, not like it'll cost me any extra to try, worst case scenario I have lots of friends with gardens that'd appreciate the compost.
Does anybody have any tips or ideas?
You could skip straining them or use the strained parts on yougurt, in smoothie, on ice cream, on banana. If you add pectin it'll be more of a jam. Probly apple skin would work.
My girlfriend doesn't want chunks in her limeade, so I'm straining it. If this were for my limeades, I would want the pulp in there.