{"id":1514,"date":"2010-07-24T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/24\/was-i-crazy\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:40:39","slug":"was-i-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/24\/was-i-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Was I crazy??"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Have I mentioned lately that it’s hot<\/i><\/b> here? \ud83d\ude09 And yet, I was in the mood to bake. That means, of course, firing up the oven and heating up the house. But I had a lot of cherries — probably the last of the season — that I’d bought, and I was afraid they’d go bad. So … I made clafoutis<\/i>, which is a luscious concoction of cherries (though you can use other fruit, too) and a sort of custard that bakes, puffs and then is devoured with gusto. Of course, you can’t let gusto get the best of you, since the cherries still have their pits! \ud83d\ude09 Pitting them makes too much of their juice bleed out all over the custard-y part. Yum! I can hardly wait! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have I mentioned lately that it’s hot here? \ud83d\ude09 And yet, I was in the mood to bake. That means, of course, firing up the oven and heating up the house. But I had a lot of cherries — probably the last of the season — that I’d bought, and I was afraid they’d go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[192],"tags":[47],"class_list":{"0":"post-1514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kitchen","8":"tag-food","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_3024.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-oq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3112,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/06\/portugal-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1514,"position":0},"title":"Portugal, part 2","author":"Sandy","date":"August 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"As the more \"formal\" portion of our Lisbon stay began, we visited several different areas of the city. 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