Happy Fourth

~ MaryG

Like nearly every American of good conscience, I have mixed feelings this Fourth of July. The promise of America is faltering under the most corrupt and despicable administration in our 250 year history. The upcoming midterm elections will hopefully spark some sort of a course correction.

In the meantime, there are children and grandchildren; national parks and beaches; fresh cherries and watermelon to be thankful for.

This land was made for you and me.

Here’s a “Cherry Clafoutis” I made with delicious fresh cherries yesterday.

This is a fairly simple and absolutely delicious use of fresh cherries. We got a cherry pitter to make it even easier.

Here’s the recipe from NYT Cooking.

I substituted Licor 43 (vanilla liqueur from Spain) for Kirsch (cherry brandy) in the recipe. And no I didn’t “scrape a vanilla bean” into the cherries—that step was a bit much!

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  2. Looks so darned good! I know exactly how you feel. On a podcast, I was listening to Heather Cox Richardson about the Fourth, and she provided a dose of no-nonsense optimism. Onward and upward!

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  3. That looks super delicious! and Happy 4th of July. It’s the 11th anniversary today of my husband and I meeting for the second time which resulted in us being together forever ❤️
    On the subject of cherries my husband and I went away last weekend to celebrate his birthday. We checked our cherry tree prior to leaving on the Thursday and they were not quite ripe enough to pick. Temperatures then rose to the point that the mercury nearly blew itself out of the thermometer gauge last weekend in the UK and we returned on Monday afternoon to find that not only had the cherries ripened but the local magpies had stripped the tree bare! No cherry jam this year 😩

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    1. Thank you!

      And darn those magpies! The nerve!!
      We can get fresh cherries in the stores here for a couple more weeks – then they’re gone until next year.

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