I think I'd like to eat at your house! For years, and before I bought a metal mallet for tenderizing meat, I used the edge of a thick saucer turned on it's side, to pound meat. That was so many years ago that I do not recall where I learned it. In those days, I often took advice from the newspaper column "Hints From Heloise."

I love dried cherries! Use them in anything you would use craisens or raisins. Great in any salad, muffin or cookie. Also make great sauce for pork chops or ham. Throw them in a ranch turkey wrap.

I put some in my divinity candy a couple weeks ago, also you can make up some jam.

We like to mix them with halved cashews and eat it as a snack by the handful. The sweet/salty/crunchy/soft thing is music for the mouth.

We love them all the ways above and I also add them to oatmeal which I eat almost every morning! Use them like any dried fruits and eat them like candy.

They are good in slow cooked oatmeal too.