Breakfast - muesli with cherries - soak natural muesli in yogurt with cherries in fridge overnight. In the morning top with you
Lunch - shredded pork and cherry wrap, brown rice, apple and cherry salad
Dinner - Grilled chicken stuffed with cherries
Dessert - Cherry jelly, torte, top a pavlova with it, trifle or muffins

Other ideas - make cherry jam or cherry sauces, blend with honey and ricotta, parfaits! make rocky road presents

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1. Watch Witches of Eastwick.
2. Dispose of cherries into garbage.

alternate option:
make cherry pie. omg I'm supercreative

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Deb over at Smitten Kitchen made a simple clafoutis with her abundance of cherries - and the bonus is that the traditional clafoutis uses cherries with the pits left inside. No squirting juices. http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/07/a-big-bowl-of-cliche-come-true

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Soak them in booze put them up in cute glass jars to give as holiday gifts?

We just made homemade maraschino cherries and they are... yummmy. I don't know how many will actually make it to December. :D

http://marriedwithdinner.com/2007/07/20/dotw-marasca-fizz/

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I hope that you have a cherry stoner... I use one and it makes things go a lot faster.

cherry ice cream
cherry cobbler
cherry pie
cherry coffee cake
cherry compote
cherry tart

sweet focaccia with cherries

cherry chutney
cherry bbq sauce
port cherry sauce for pork or venison

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Oh - here's the stoner I use -

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005EBH0/shinythings-20

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Chop them up and mix them with 97% lean ground beef. Make burger patties with the mixture. Keeps the burger juicy without all of the fat of regular ground beef.

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Smoke 'em on a grill then have a brilliant Manhattan! Hey, I learned that here at Slashfood!

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Make Cherry Crisp (same as apple crisp, with equal amount of cherries). it works wonderfully. My family loves it and we're not necessarily dessert eaters. (but it also makes a great breakfast)

A cherry pitter will make that job far easier.

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you can make a mean steak marinade with them and you wont even have to stone them! nick the skins with a fruit knife then throw them into a large ziplock freezer bag, add 1/2 cup balsalmic vineager, 1/4 cup olive oil, 2 tablespoons garlic powder, 1/2 tablespoon white pepper if your using fancy steak (ribeye, filet the flavor wont overpower the mild natural flavors of the meat while adding the heat) or 1 tablespoon of black pepper for tougher more robust cuts of meat. 2 tablespoons of kosher salt and some onion powder. seal the bag and mix it by squishing it around with your hands until all ingredients are combined, then add 1/2 cup dark red wine and 1/2 cup breadcrumbs. Resquish. Then put your meat (cut no more than 1" thick) into it and press all the air out of the bag, reseal and resquish. Leave to marinate in your fridge for at least 2 hours for tender cuts and overnight for tougher ones. Heat your grill to RIPPING hot (i like to push mine as hot as it will go) and grill for three minutes on each side to sear, then turn the heat down to medium and grill for 3 minutes on each side again and voila! Perfect Steak Forever (this recipe comes from my cookbook, its dewicious)

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I dunno, I could just eat a bazillion cherries raw. :P

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The only choice would be Cherries Jubilee: http://intofreshair.com/cg/?p=33

It is cheap, easy, and possibly the best dessert EVER!

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Get them drunk in a jar of cherry brandy and drop them into a whiskey sour...Yum!

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I'm with the person above who suggested a clafouti. I don't even like cherries that much, but I'm tempted to buy some and make a clafouti of my own. :)

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Use a paperclip (large, unbend it into an 'S' shape) instead of a fruit knife to avoid cutting yourself. You'll still get the blood red fingers though. And the first couple of cherries will inevitably squirt until you get the hang of it. But it's not too bad, I've had about 1 jumping cherry pit for every 1.5 lbs of cherries pitted so far.

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Make a cold cherry soup with a yogurt garnish. Umm... I don't know how to do this, but I've seen it in a cookbook before and I ate it last night at a Mediterranean restaurant and it was refreshing and just really darn good (not sweet either).

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i agree with the clafoutis recommendations - i just made one this morning (from a silver spoon recipe i found on this blog http://katnsatoshiinjapan.blogspot.com/2007/06/cherry-clafoutis.html ) it was so simple - it took about 10 mins to assemble, 40 to bake. the best part if you dont have to pit the cherries! and its not too sweet so its perfect for breakfast or a snack.

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definitely get a cherry pitter.
then make some real maraschino cherries and some good ol' down home cherry pie from scratch.

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How about cherry soup? It might seem a bit unusual, but it's quite refreshing!

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Hm, the link for the cherry soup recipe didn't appear in my previous comment: http://iwaruna.com/2007/06/24/cherry-soup/

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