July is already here! Half the year has gone by, so quickly too. I wanted to make the most of seasonal summer fruit before everything went away. I shared mango recipes last week, and this week I’m going to be baking with cherries!!

I picked up a box of Kashmiri cherries from my grocer and pitted and chopped some of them today. Don’t let the pale color fool you- they are sweet even though they don’t look it. I was quite surprised myself!

The funny thing is, cherry was my absolute favourite flavor for everything when I was a kid. Cherry Kool-Aid, cherry Life Savers, cherry Nerds, cherry bubble gum and lollipops, cherry-vanilla ice cream…yet, cherries are the one fruit I have probably eaten the least of in natural form. You didn’t get them much in Kerala, and while at college in Delhi…well, let’s just say as a college student…