Cherry Picking

John and I went cherry picking in Brentwood on Saturday with Natalie, Mitch, and everyone else in the Bay Area.  It was paaaaaaacked.

Luckily there were tons of cherries on every tree, so everybody got their fill (even those who tried to eat directly off the tree).

As someone who is 30 weeks pregnant, there was no way I was going to be doing any sort of picking that involves bending over.  Cherry picking is incredibly easy, you just reach up pluck them right from the tree.  Perfect for a big bellied lady like me.

We also went peach picking, which is just as easy and just as delicious as cherry picking.  Lots of the peaches were so ripe you had to eat them standing in the field or else they wouldn't make it home in one piece.  

After a couple hours working up an appetite in the orchards we stopped for a picnic of sweet and spicy cole slaw, zucchini appetizer, curried chicken salad, and whole wheat chocolate chip cookies.  It was great.  

  

They had gigantic baskets of loganberries for sale at the farm stand, and I picked up a quart.  

What better way to use a lot of berries than to put them in personal pies?  We bought the mini pie dishes just for this purpose, and they were perfect.  I made enough homemade dough to make personal peach pies tomorrow.  Don't you love long weekends?  Happy Memorial Day!