The Cherry Pie Side of Writing

I love pies. Let me emphasize that a bit more. I LOVE pies. I love to eat them, I love to bake them, I love to find new recipes, and I love to improve the recipes I already have. If I had to choose only one type of pie to eat for the rest of my life, I wouldn’t even know where to begin. So, it is only natural that if I happened to stumble upon a bag of cherries in my fridge, which I had forgotten I bought the week before, the first thought to cross my mind would be, Cherry Pie.

Believe it or not, this happened yesterday. I was happily browsing through the fridge in search of carrots when out of nowhere a bag of ripe, burgundy-colored, ready to bake cherries rolled into view. They looked up to me as if saying, here we are, bake us, bake us! Well, maybe not so dramatically, it’s not like I live in wonderland with talking cherries, but you get the point. Completely thrilled, I picked up the bag and modified my dinner plans to accommodate my surprising discovery [...]

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