Skip to main content

Can't Mess It Up Cranberry Sauce

Mmmmmm...it's almost here!  Thanksgiving!  Our family will be doing something non-traditional for us.  Usually we go to Georgia to visit my parents or we celebrate with our family in St. Louis.  However, since we moved to Branson we are going to stay here this year.  The family that my husband works for will also be staying here as well so we are going to celebrate together.  I am very excited to share Thanksgiving with them!  They have a great tradition.  Each family member gets to choose any side he or she wishes, so there will be at least one thing that he or she will eat!  Sure, we may have 10 starches and one green bean casserole but this day comes once a year so bring it on!  I am going to adopt this tradition for our family as well as my children don't eat much except maybe rolls and a little turkey. :/ 

We have chosen to split the menu in half, pretty much, to share the cost of this gargantuan meal.  One of the things I am bringing will be cranberry sauce which I made last night.  You can NOT mess this up.  My dad and I make it every time we visit for Thanksgiving.  I switched it up a little bit this time, though and I think it is even more delicious with the tartness from the tangerines!


Can't Mess It Up Cranberry Sauce

*  1 12oz bag of fresh cranberries
*  1/2 to 3/4 cup of sugar depending on preference. I did 3/4 cup
*  1/2 cup water
3/4 cup freshly squeezed tangerine juice (I had 3 tangerines and this is what I got)
*  zest of one tangerine

1.  Rinse your cranberries in a colander.
2.  Zest one tangerine.
3.  Juice your fruit.  I used all of mine, which was almost a cup. 
4.  Combine juice, sugar, zest and water in a medium saucepan over medium heat.  Stir occasionally until sugar dissolves.
5.  Stir in cranberries and bring to a boil.  Reduce heat and simmer until your desired consistency.  Mine took 12 minutes.  I really like all of the berries to pop and gel. 
6.  Chill completely before serving.

                                     

I had to have a small bowl right off of the stove!  It is yummy cold but it tastes so good hot too!  My five year old even informed me she stole a taste while it was cooling and liked it too!  Score!  Most recipes are variations of this so adjust it as you wish.  Hope you enjoy! 




Comments

Popular posts from this blog

The tooth fairy box

We had a momentous occasion take place this past weekend.  My daughter lost her first tooth!  She was so excited when she realized that I had pulled it out.  I knew we had to make something special to keep that little bitty guy from getting lost.  Here is what we came up with:         We dug in our huge stock of craft stuff and found a little oval paper mache box.  It is about 3 3/4 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide.  Still big for a baby tooth but also big enough to fit a little trinket and some coins from a winged fairy who spreads glitter and magic in exchange for them.  :)    I negotiated hard for the printed paper.  It is from the Emma's Shoppe Collection Fabrics from Crate Paper .  I showed my daughter many different prints and she wasn't interested.  She chose the solid pink and blue and I had to tell her I would hardly use the floral at all.  Tough sell!  First, I hot glued 4 plain wooden beads on the bottom of the box to make feet.  I then measur

a gift for a baby girl

A little over a year ago a sweet baby girl named Lila was born.  I had never met her.  My husband worked with her father and had asked me to make a gift for her.  I quickly obliged since it meant being able to use my craft goodies.  After thinking a while, I decided upon a foot stool and some blocks.  My cousin gave me a stool at my daughter's baby shower five and a half years ago and it is the single most thing we use.  Every day.  So much so that I had to make another one  for my son since my children were getting too big to both stand on it at the same time.  Seriously, if you are scrambling for a gift that will stand out and be remembered, a stool will do it.  Even if you aren't creative, you can just paint the thing and be finished.  I got the stool and blocks at Hobby Lobby.  If you go there weekly, like I do, (did) you can figure out when things will be on sale so you don't have to pay full price, or you can just use that precious 40% off coupon that comes out week

some card eye candy/is scraplifting ok?

We have another snow day today!  It has finally stopped, but not before giving us a good 8 inches of that powdery stuff.  Hurray!  We played outside twice today before the bitter cold chased us back inside.  It was so much fun.  Now that I'm back inside and warm, I wanted to share a few cards that I made a while back.  I need to put a disclaimer out there before you see them.  Many times I am not that creative.  I need a jumping off point so I will browse around until I see an idea of what I am wanting to make and then I make it my own with what I have.  It is not exactly scraplifting   per se, because I don't make scrapbook pages, but in essence it is because I am getting inspiration from someone else's work.  There are a lot of arguments about whether or not it is appropriate.  Personally I think it is ok because I almost never have the same exact papers or supplies that were used in a particular project.   I usually subtract or add elements as well.  I mean, card-makin