Ditch the Can of Cranberry Sauce and Go Homemade
I love simple recipes. Every time I make one, I’m in shock. Like this applesauce. How could it be so easy? I thought the only easy applesauce came from a jar.
And now? The cranberry sauce we just ate for Thanksgiving. It’s just like the stuff from a can except, well, it doesn’t taste like a can or have a list of ingredients longer than the Golden Gate Bridge.
In Germany, we can’t get prepared foods we’re used to having at Thanksgiving like Stovetop Stuffing and Costco pies. If you want those crazy American things around here, you season the breadcrumbs yourself. You buy and roast the pumpkin. You might even have to milk the cow. ;)
I was okay with all of that. But no can of cranberry sauce? That’s my mittens on a winter day. Surely I’d freeze. And my hands would get numb. And turn black. And fall off. And then the world would end… so we needed to have cranberry sauce at our Berlin Thanksgiving party even though Martin said I tend to overreact.
If you need to have cranberry sauce as much as me, skip the can. Skip the chutney. And click right here for one mighty fine (and oh-so-easy) cranberry sauce recipe with only FOUR ingredients by the Food Network’s own Alton Brown.
It made our Sunday Thanksgiving the bomb (at least to me).
(Image by Zach Kowalczyk)
November 24th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Did you make it? It sure sounds easy!
November 24th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
OMG this is perfect. Cranberry sauce is one of my husband’s favorite dishes at Thanksgiving! I still haven’t tried your apple sauce recipe, but I intend to. Mmmmm mmmm. So you already had your party? I hope you will let us all know how it went! I’m sure it was a smashing success!
November 24th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
The things you have to go through to celebrate Thanksgiving with the foods you are used to using. So how did the cranberry sauce turn out?
November 24th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
This is so exciting! I love this!
November 24th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Oh Katie, that really sounds good!
So how did your dinner go? Do you have any pics?
November 24th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Oooh I might have to give that one a try for Christmas. (Already have all the ingredients to make my cranberries for Thanksgiving.
I <3 Alton Brown. :)
November 25th, 2008 at 12:23 am
PERFECT timing. I’m in charge of the cranberry sauce (and rolls)!
November 26th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Aha Katie…so this is how GOOD Cranberry Sauce is made…never knew that! LOL ;-) Bo
November 26th, 2008 at 5:39 am
I made cranberry sauce for the first time last year, and I loved it! can’t wait to see pics of your dinner!
November 26th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Hi all!
You’re in luck if you try this recipe (at least I think so… and so did the guests!). The Americans dug right into the cranberry sauce. Everyone else? Kind of gave it a funny look. Didn’t know what they’d been missing all their lives. (and neither did I before I snagged this recipe!)
Happy feasting!
Katie