Cherry Pie

Hey There,

Well I have to tell you about a cherry pie that I made today. First a little background on the cherries, yes my cherries have a background and it involves two men.

I have two gentlemen that come in for French Toast at least two if not three times a week.

What does this have to do with cherries........its coming

So these two guys come in one day with a bag of Bing cherries and tell me that I can have them. OK I give them to my husband to eat because well........sometimes I think about where peoples hands have been and what is inside of something so much it kinda takes all the fun out of eating something.

I must wash my hands like a hundred times during the day....I know I run a little cafe' and I should be washing my hands but that doesn't mean that I know everyone else wash their hands...I don't know I am just crazy about some things.

OK cherries....its coming

So these two men ask me if I liked the cherries and of course I said yes they were very good. I was honest and told them I had only eaten one or two and that the husband had the rest. You see the husband really likes cherries, his mother use to can like a million quarts of these Bing cherries. You know what husbands favorite pie is?.....that's right, "Cherry"

OK now getting back to the story.....these two men come in with an idea of me making them a cherry pie out of Bing cherries. They asked if I had a pitter, I said no and I told them if they wanted me to make them a cherry pie then they will have to pit the cherries.

Well here they come on Friday afternoon with two bags of these pitted Bing cherries and I tell them that I will have a pie made by morning when they come in for breakfast.

I have always used sour pie cherries and so I knew what to do with them. So flying by the seat of my pants again, flying is not an unusual thing with me, I fly by the seat of my pants a lot.

So I put the cherries in two separate pans because I am making one with regular sugar and one with Splenda for them. I put in some of this and some of that and then I get the bright idea of.....now listen closely because I think this is what really gave the pie its flavor. I used vitamin water.....its a coke product.....I used acai, blueberry and pomg.....flavor. See flying by the seat of my pants. So I thicken the cherries and yes I did use a thickener and no I am not telling you which one.

I roll out my crust and bing a bang a boom the pie goes into the oven....OH MY GOSH!!!
I have to tell you that it was very good, I couldn't believe how good it was. I will tell you a little secret....psssst come closer.....I used only 1/2 cup of sugar in the regular pie and 1/4 cup of splenda in the other.

They both said I had done good and of course, they both were very happy when I came out of the kitchen with two containers and told them they could enjoy more of it tonight or tomorrow, just don't eat it all in one setting.