Hand holding a package with frozen cherries in the freezer. - Qwart/Getty Images Freezing cherries sounds foolproof: rinse, bag, freeze, done. But skip pitting them first, and you'll regret it later.

Alas, tart cherries have come and gone — as ephemeral as a mayfly hatch. I hope you had the forethought, as I did, to buy as many pie cherries as you could for freezing. Winter will be that much ...

Freezing cherries sounds foolproof: rinse, bag, freeze, done. But skip pitting them first, and you'll regret it later. Whole cherries with pits freeze into dense, rock-hard clumps that are nearly ...