Today is a day Americans set aside to gather with family, friends or both, bow our heads and give thanks for the blessings God has given us.
It is wonderful to have the day off from work and I am busy this morning making my part of the Thanksgiving dinner: homemade mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. Because these two dishes are so important to the classic Thanksgiving dinner, I take a lot of care in preparing them and enjoy watching people gobble them up.
I started making homemade cranberry sauce years ago after I was served this particular cranberry sauce (recipe below) at someone else's house. It's delicious and easy to make and gets better the longer it sits. I loved it right away because I was brought up on canned cranberry sauce. We were a family of eight and we usually had at least three or four other relatives join us for Thanskgiving dinner so we went for what was quick and easy. The cranberry sauce I knew jiggled on our plates.
We would open the cans of cranberry sauce and then it would come out in the same round shape like the can including the indentations on the side. Next we would cut it the cranberry jelly into slices and then take a slice and lay it on a plate and push a cookie cutter in the middle of it to make a holiday shape such as a turkey or a star.
Those were the days!
My son and I will be with part of my family today and I am very blessed with a loving family, great friends, good health and a solid job. I am also blessed to have the best readers who follow my blog and always keep me moving forward towards a healing place.
Who could ask for more? Well, I could ask for more, but I won't.
Those were the days!
My son and I will be with part of my family today and I am very blessed with a loving family, great friends, good health and a solid job. I am also blessed to have the best readers who follow my blog and always keep me moving forward towards a healing place.
Who could ask for more? Well, I could ask for more, but I won't.
May your Thanksgiving Day be full of family, friends, food and fortune! Happy Thanksgiving!
Cranberry Orange Sauce
1 12 oz bag of fresh cranberries
1 orange
Sugar to taste
Wash the cranberries, then put them into the food processor until they are chopped up to the size you like. Put the chopped cranberries into a bowl. Next cut the orange into relatively small pieces. Remove the seeds. Then put the oranges, rind and all, into the food processor until it is the consistency you like. Pour that into the cranberries and mix together. Next I usually add a half cup of sugar and then mix everything together. Let it sit for at least 15 minutes before serving.
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