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Title: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: ednbarby on November 20, 2006, 01:10:07 pm

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

Title: Re: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: Ellemeno on November 21, 2006, 03:30:08 am

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.

Title: Re: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: southendmd on November 21, 2006, 12:45:31 pm

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.

Title: Re: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: moremojo on November 21, 2006, 02:45:02 pm

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.

Title: Re: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: Lynne on November 21, 2006, 02:51:36 pm

Quote from: moremojo on November 21, 2006, 02:45:02 pm

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

Title: Re: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: Scott6373 on November 21, 2006, 03:19:54 pm

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

Title: Re: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on November 21, 2006, 07:20:50 pm

Quote from: Scott6373 on November 21, 2006, 03:19:54 pm

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

SLAP!  :laugh:

Title: Re: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: ednbarby on November 21, 2006, 09:32:28 pm

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.

Title: Re: How do you like your cranberry sauce?
Post by: delalluvia on November 22, 2006, 09:40:43 pm

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

Quote from: ednbarby on November 21, 2006, 09:32:28 pm

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.

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

 :D