Good point! We do have a blender.

But it’s my mom’s recipe and Thanksgiving was her big holiday and it’s the first year she’s not here. So I think I just want to do something different this year. And Jello sounds pretty fun- but sounds like I need a blender for that too.

Whole cranberries, water, sugar, orange. Bring water/sugar to a boil, add cranberries. Simmer for 20ish minutes, add orange (zest/juice whatever you like). Cool and eat.
Same. We pick wild cranberries (not that anyone could tell the difference).

edbikebabe wrote:


That's neat. I didn't know wild cranberries existed. Where do you live?

Whole cranberries, water, sugar, orange. Bring water/sugar to a boil, add cranberries. Simmer for 20ish minutes, add orange (zest/juice whatever you like). Cool and eat.

It's really easy:
2 boxes of sugar free cherry jello
3/4 cup of sugar
2 cups of boiling water
1/2 cup orange juice
1 cup of cold water
1 orange plus the zest
2 apples
1 bag of cranberries

Dissolve jello and sugar in 2 cups of boiling water. Stir well. Add 1 cup of cold water and 1/2 cup of orange juice. Refrigerate until jello starts to get slightly firm. I use the grinder attachment on my mixer and grind up the cranberries, apples and orange (although the orange doesn't work very well in the grinder). Stir the orange zest into the fruit. Add the fruit to the jello when it is partially firm.

In my family, no one touches it unless you can still see the ridges from the can.

I need a new cranberry sauce since mine requires a food processor and I don’t have one available.

So- what’s in your cranberry sauce?