How do you like your cranberry sauce?

[ednbarby]

All this talk about Thanksgiving recipes, aside from making me really hungry, brought this question to mind. 

[Ellemeno]

I like my cranberry sauce the way I like my orange juice - pulp-free.  It feels very childlike and immature (meaning undeveloped, pre-sophisticated) to like it this way, kind of a nostalgia thing.  Comforting.

[southendmd]

I grew up with the can-shaped stuff, but never really liked it.

I love my cranberries raw with fresh ginger and orange, ground up with a little sugar.  Simple and good.

Don't like them cooked.  As Lynne says, they pop all over your kitchen if you're not careful.

I actually picked my own cranberries a few times:  they grow wild in the Provincetown dunes.  In the valleys where there's moisture, not a bog at all.

[moremojo]

Call me weird if you must, but I like my cranberry sauce to have the consistency of jelly, like you would find from the can.

[Lynne]

Call me weird if you must, but I like my cranberry sauce to have the consistency of jelly, like you would find from the can.

You're not weird, Scott...It's comfy...what I grew up with.  I don't really care how it's made.  I voted for the fresh b/c when I make it that way I can use less sugar or raw sugar.  If you strain it and chill, I think it will gel just like the canned kind.  It's the tart contrast with the turkey and stuffing that makes it so appealing...kinda like the sweet contrast of lamb w/mint jelly.

-Lynne

[Scott6373]

Lightly spread over the one I love..ooops did I say that...Someone slap me.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Lightly spread over the one I love..ooops did I say that...Someone slap me.

SLAP! 

[ednbarby]

I've never been one much for combining food and sex, myself.  (Well, unless you call wining and dining me beforehand a combination - and that's always welcome, btw.)

As far as the sauce goes, I grew up with the stuff in the can.  And I've tried homemade relishes.  Don't like either.  Too tart for me.  I'd rather have something sweet, like applesauce, as a kind of relish.  Ed likes the can-shaped stuff, so I bought a can for him and plan to make one with fresh cranberries and oranges and orange liquer.  I'm kinda thinkin' the more liquer I add, the more tasty it'll be.  Or maybe I just won't care so much if it isn't.

[delalluvia]

That sounds yummy southendmd.  Sugar, orange and ginger.  Yummy.

I've never been one much for combining food and sex, myself.

Me neither.  Both experiences are too intense, I can only concentrate on one at a time.

(Well, unless you call wining and dining me beforehand a combination - and that's always welcome, btw.)