apropos of anything

There are cherries at the grocery store. I love cherries. I wanted to make a cherry pie, my very first. (NO INAPPROPRIATE JOKES. This is a PG blog.) Living in the South, I have limited access to cherries, which means the plethora of sour cherry pie recipes available on the internets does me no good at all.

Alas for the demise (possibly short-lived) of Tastespotting, I thought. If only I could search its archives for sweet cherry pie recipes. I could always Google, but that opens me up to results that are not from respected and reputable food blogs, and nobody wants to spend time rolling out crust for a mediocre pie. And yet, so much do I want to make a cherry pie that I thought, okay, I’ll Google… but first I should check Smitten Kitchen to see if maybe one of her recipes is adaptable.

Today, Deb posted this:

Sweet cherry pie. A pie made of sweet cherries, the very cherries that are currently available in such abundance at my neighborhood grocery stores. Hers looks too pretty to eat; mine will not be nearly so pretty, but it is entirely possible I will spend this week making not dinner, but pie, pie, and more pie: sweet cherry, strawberry, and summer berry. After all, berries are only in season for a few short weeks…