Saturday, January 3, 2009

Chocolate Covered Cherries!


Do you like cherries? I've always loved cherries, especially fresh ones. I moved to the right place because Bigfork, Montana is famous for cherries. Most of the farms are on the east side of Flathead Lake and I live 2 miles away from the lake shore. One of those farms can be seen here. In the summer you will find all sorts of cherry booths set up around town. Not only are they delicious and low in calories, but they're really inexpensive when you buy them from local farmers. Rainier cherries are my favorite, which are the yellow ones. You can also find cherry coffees, cherry fudge, cherry jams and other goodies all year round.

It probably won't surprise you that today is National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day. This seems a little odd to me because by January 3rd, most of the stores are no longer carrying chocolate covered cherries as much as they do at Christmas. But who are we to argue, right? Normally, I buy a box (or two or three or four) of Queen Anne cordial cherries at Christmas. This year I was holding out for the peppermint ones, but before I found them, my friend Gale sent me a box of Trader Joe's Liqueur Cherries. What a great surprise! I absolutely love those cherries and we no longer live anywhere close to a TJs. Gale had remembered me talking about them and surprised me with a few other goodies from TJs. Thank you Gale! I believe Trader Joe's only sells these around Christmastime. I haven't had breakfast yet, but I have had 2 chocolate covered cherries. I had to eat them after taking this picture. The sacrifices a photographer has to make -- sigh.

The other day I said I wanted to try some of Photojojo's Photo Resolutions for the New Year. Resolution #16 is to "do something different" and to photograph things that don't come easily to you. I figured photographing the cherries would be a good place to start, with it being Chocolate Covered Cherry Day and all. It's a hard job, but someone's got to do it!

15 comments:

  1. You're most welcome. :)

    So, tell me. Those cherries in the pic - are they the TJ ones, or did they not last past Christmas?

    TH loves chocolate covered cherries. For some reason, though, I'm not a big fan of them. I'm somewhat of a purist when it comes to chocolate. :D

    Gale

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  2. Hi Gale -- Yes, those are the TJ's ones you sent. The last four of them. Well, now there's only 2 left, since the other 2 had to give their lives for the picture this morning. ;)

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  3. Yummo! I have never seen yellow cherries, we just get the red ones.

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  4. Wow, just noticed your nanowrimo winner badge - congrats! Do you get anything? Or just the badge?
    I finished my little story that you inspired me to write, just have to figure out what to do with it!

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  5. OK, I have a feeling if I keep commenting I am going to be banned from your blog! lol. So of course I don't like cherries - in fact I hate them. (Oh no - who invited me?) First jelly beans, now cherries... I obviously live (and eat) in a small box!) :)

    So saying that I have been known to eat sour cherries right off the tree in my dad's back yard. These cherries are so sour that your mouth puckers just looking at em! Yummy.

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  6. Girl...how did I ever miss a national chocolate (whatever is covered) day?! :)

    Hope you're having a good weekend.

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  7. You're not supposed to have chocolate before breakfast??? Oh...

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  8. Oooh, those look yummy. I love Rainier cherries, they are so sweet. I think I could sit and eat bing cherries all day, so good! Gonna have to try these TJ's liqueur cherries some day if I can find them!

    Nancy

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  9. I looooooooooooooooove chocolate covered cherries! My hubby just got me some today (and he didn't even know it was NCCC Day!)

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  10. LOL! I knew it! When I saw "Choc cov. Cherries" as your title, I thought "Oh, it must be Choc. cov. cherry day! I'm amazed at what a wealth of food info you are! ;0)


    Happy New Year!

    hmmm. . . I"m hungry now

    Christy

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  11. Cherries! I love them! It's been so long. We don't get them here or if do, you'll be paying out your month's salary to afford it.

    Those look just divine.

    (I think there needs to be a law that bans not having chocolate for breakfast.)

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  12. Rainier Cherries are my absolute FAV!!! they are expensive but definitely worth the price.

    I hopped over to the farm site and loved the pics of the little kids. BTW: You pic is perfect! I am thinking of taking a photography class...in my spare time ;-)

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  13. I love cherries, raw, freshly washed, chilled...but I'm not a big fan of them presented in any other form. I would dearly love to be able to get them from a road side stand. Hmm, hmm!

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  14. Thanks for all of your replies, everyone!

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  15. I love cherries although there is no cherry plant in here. Philippines is a tropical country but I love those red rounds on cakes and cocktails and I bet, I'll be loving it more with chocolate as its warm jacket. I wish I can just munch on the picture you put in. :))

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