Last night I was looking forward to a real summertime meal  Farmer’s market tomatoes and corn with grilled burgers.  I decided to make turkey burgers from Everyday Food Light.  Mind you this is a cookbook “from the Kitchen of Martha Stewart.”  The recipe was messy and too runny for the grill.  I put it under the broiler.  They still fell apart.  I had turned them over and had to go to the bathroom.  Jim is sitting at the kitchen table.  “Can you watch the burgers?”  “Yes.”  I came out and smoke is coming out of the oven and the bell is dinging away.  Jim is still in his seat.  I pulled them out and they are black and in pieces.  The corn was good.  I had 1 tomato on my black turkey burger which I was able to pile the pieces on a bun.  The bad part is we have 2 more to cook.  They are in the refrigerator and I am hoping I will be able to work with them tomorrow at dinner.  Today we are going to Anatolia’s with the wine club.  I don’t really like the restaurant, but I don’t have to cook.  

Yesterday we walked in the Mall.  The walk included stops in Crate and Barrel and William’s Sonoma.  In WS I was able to find a OXO cherry pitter that did 6 cherries at a time.  It worked very efficiently and I made a cherry pie this afternoon after breakfast. The Joy of Cooking that I use for blueberrry pies said under cherry pies to use the blueberry recipe but do not add the spice and instead use either kirch or almond extract.  I used almond extract and the pie was great.  This piece is Jim's.  I am probably the only person in the world that does not like whipped cream.  Lucy loves whipped cream and demands some each time Jim gets it out.  

When we lived in Narberth, we had a sour cherry tree in the backyard.  I remember making sour cherry soup, but never a pie.  I had this device that did one cherry at a time.  That didn’t make the move out of that house.