I LOVE cherries so when I saw that started carrying Gullah Gourmet’s Cherry Pickin’ Cobbler I was super excited. Where I grew up in West Virginia we had a cherry tree in our front yard. But I don’t remember us ever eating a cherry off that tree as a kid. And as I mentioned, I love cherries. Well, one spring when my husband and I were visiting my parents my Dad came in from the yard and was like the cherries are ready. And I made both my parents and my husband drop everything and go pick cherries. See, the reason we never eat a cherry off that tree is that the birds have some kind of radar that knows the precise moment that cherries are ripe and they steal all of them (greedy little suckers). So, the 4 of us got grocery bags and picked as many cherries as each of us could fit into our bags. While it was nice to finally beat the birds to the cherries, the best part was spending that afternoon with my family doing nothing but talking and picking cherries.
What did we do with all those cherries? Well… obviously, I ate my weight in them. But we had enough for a pie. And my Godmother must love me very much because she pitted what felt like a million cherries to make a pie. This is why you never see cherry pies with fresh cherries, it’s a real pain and time suck to pit all those cherries. Hence, cherry pie filling exists.
That was a long story just to say, I made Cherry Cobbler. While I love cherries, sometimes cherry pie filling can get a little sweet for me, so I had a bag of fresh cranberries in the freezer and I dumped half the bag in with the pie filling. Let me just say, this tart loving girl thoroughly enjoyed this Cherry & Cranberry Cobbler. I highly recommend that cranberry addition!
