Random Money Saving Cooking Tip

If you are tempted to make this pie, as I am, did you know that you can use the straw from a sippy cup as a cherry pitter?  It works handily, just turn the cherry upside-down and push the pit out through the stem end.

Good to know, when you have a child that pounds down cherries as quickly as mine does.  Thus far, I've been biting them in half, one at a time, and peeling the pit out with my teeth.  Then I hand Sam the remaining fruit.  Gross.  I know.  But what's a mom to do?