Cherries

Cherries. Eat Bing to Remove Sting.

This is the cherry season. Come September and the cherries are gone.

We were in Kazanluk,Bulgaria for my nephews wedding.

It is a beautiful town.

Several of the streets were lined with sour cherries and come a shower of rain ,hundreds of cherries were on the floor.

We had breakfast ,lunch and dinner everyday at Snezana Ivanovas parents house.

It was a wonderful time bonding with the new Bulgarian family for us.

I could open the kitchen window and have access to picking the cherries from cherry tree and which I did.

Snezanas mom made cherry juice every day for all of us to sip on all day.

It was very delicious and healthy drink.

I will share an easy cherry milk shake recipe.

Get a good quality chocolate milk from grocery store and add 20 or more frozen pitted 

i.e pits removed frozen cherries to this 12 oz of chocolate milk and blend.

Tasty cherry chocolate milkshake is ready.

Now,if we really want it healthy, use 1/2% milk!add 2 to 3 tsf of cacao nibs, tsf of honey,

25 or more frozen cherries and blend.much healthier version of cherry chocklate shake is ready.

Cherries are good in gout.

Cherries have melatonin which helps induce sleep,specially tart cherries.

Cherries are antiinflammatory with cox2 inhibitor like action.

Cherry juice reduces muscle soreness.

Blend some frozen red cherries with water and add juice of one lemon,and add some fresh greens,spinach or arugula and blend.You got red juice with green foam on top.

It is said 2 bowls of cherries for 28 days may relieve your arthritic pain for good.

If any of the above shake recipe is not sweet,use a pitted date in blender to add sweetness.