While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

Today is anything but the pits because January 3 is National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day!

If you're at all concerned about breaking any resolutions so early in the game, just remember that cherries are not only fruit, but a super-fruit that is really good for you.

Sweet, indulgent chocolate-covered cherries have been in production since 1864. You know you're into something good when, with one bite, you hear that telltale snap and then a sweet liquid center oozing with cheery cherry goodness follows close behind.

That magic center of a chocolate-covered cherry can take up to a month to form and "cure," but you don't have to wait to indulge yourself.

Add some sweet shine to the bleak midwinter and make yourself some chocolate-covered cherry cookies or a pie. That should turn any winter blues you have a bright cherry red.