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?
Yeah, I don't know if we've talked about this before, but I used to be a chef. I'm actually a really good cook. I prefer to keep my day to day job working class friendly food, I currently work at a by the slice pizza and sandwich shop that's open until all the bars around it close. I make drunk people the meals of their dreams, I make great food for people who truly appreciate it and for that I am grateful for my job.
I save all my more complex cooking for loved ones. Know I recently made a comment in another thread about going vegan for a bit, I have relented a little bit and now I'm just vegetarian. I had already been slowly moving away from meat, but that cicada traumatized me, I cannot imagine eating meat ever again.
Yeah idk if you explicitly stated that but i picked up on that, thats cool. I like my job for the same reasons you do. It's really nice feeding people who appreciate it. Everything about it is satisfying work as long as i don't think about my pay or my bosses or anything about that
If you're vegetarian that will make the other suggestion i had going to bed easier, I was gonna say maybe make some kinda walnut/cashew based cherry "cream cheese" spread for bagels n shit but you could probably just blend the cherries into some regular cream cheese even more easily (i have little experience making nut based dairy alternatives since we're not allowed to use nuts at work (
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