Mick Doobie
Resist We Much
Generally, I chop them up for chili. Sometimes, I'll use a small one in spaghetti sauce, especially if I don't have any hot Italian Sausage. I really don't make salsa. The dried ones, I use in a pepper grinder on stuff like lasagna, pizza, etc. It doesn't take much at all.
I always end up with way more than I can use, kind of like my cherry tree. I think I picked about 6 or 7 gallons this year. A good friend asked if she could have a quart... I took here a gallon jug!
A man can only eat so much cherry pie!
Bing sweet type cherries, or tart cherries?
Grandmother had a tart cherry tree at her place when I was a kid....along with pear tree, (damson) plums, strawberry patch, grape vines, and a huge garden area. Tart cherries are pretty good for eating and better for pies/cooking, but there were a couple of large sweet cherry trees in the neighborhood we would sneak and eat cherries until our stomachs hurt. Big fat dark purple cherries. Would love to have either type tree, you're fortunate.
If you find you're fresh out of Italian sausage or even want to kick up the Italian sweet sausage flavor, you can add some Fennel Seed to your sauce. Works like a charm.