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)