A Thanksgiving Recipe!

     Imagine a sparkling, glass bowl filled with something that is beautifully crimson and downright gorgeous! And then, you find out that you get to EAT this beauty.  Wow, your knees start to go weak when you taste it and find it to be wonderfully juicy, perfectly sweet, and just a teensy bit tart (like a warhead...but toned down....A LOT).  It's name........(suspense!)........Cranberry sauce.  Ahh, Cranberry sauce is my second favorite dish at Thanksgiving (stuffing ranks #1).  

   Anyway, I wanted to share with you, merry followers, the cranberry sauce that my family has been making for a couple of years.  The recipe was actually on the back of the cranberry bag!  It is soo tasty.  Ok, here is is:

                                      3 cups (12 ounces) fresh or frozen Cranberries

                                      1 cups Sugar

                                      1 cup Water

   1.)  First, you need to rinse the cranberries with cold water.  While you rinse them, pick out (and throw away) the mushy berries you come across.

2.)  Meanwhile, mix the sugar and water in a medium saucepan. (If you use a small saucepan, you will have to clean the stove....)  Let it come to a boil.

  3.)  Now, add the sparkling berries to the pan and let the sugar water boil again.   

  4.)  Stir occasionally while the cranberry skins pop.  

  5.)  After about all of them are popped, remove the pan from the heat and let it cool.  Then, pour the lovely sauce into a bowl and refrigerate it until you are ready to eat.  

              (Note: There will be a lot of liquid in the pan but it will thicken into a wonderful, syrup                              like consistency after it cools.  In other words, please don't drain the liquid!) 

   

Enjoy the Cranberry sauce and let me know what you think!  If you want to change it up, add some apples when you add the cranberries. Yum!  Below are some more pictures (unfortunately, the camera died so I don't have a finished result.  However, I'm sure that you can imagine how lovely it looked) :

A cranberry popped and my did it scare me! I jerked the picture, but i think it turned out kinda neat.. :D