Next year, I’ll need to plan my Thanksgiving meal proportions a little better. Or, rather, I’ll need to make decidedly less cranberry sauce, as right now it looks like we’ll be eating it well into the next millenium.
I’m taking suggestions for (meatless) leftover cranberry concoctions. So far, the only thing I’ve come up with is a peanut butter and cranberry sauce sandwich. It’s kind of like jelly, right? Just a little more tart.
Does anyone else feel like they have to go to the grocery store all of the time? Maybe it’s just because I work in one and shop in another,
but I feel like my life revolves around being inside of supermarkets. Not that my fridge is ever well-stocked or anything.
Attention shoppers, we have a special on cranberry sauce in Aisle Three. Please also try a sample of our very own cranberry sauce lasagna in our deli. Thank you for shopping with us, and have a nice day.
17 responses so far ↓
1 GLAMOURisCOCAINE // Nov 29, 2005 at 9:43 am
Ha. That was hilarious. Shopping all the time? I wouldn’t know. I live off ramen noodles. I’m broke. College=way too expensive.
-Hil
2 sunshineboy78 // Nov 29, 2005 at 9:52 am
cranberry sauce lasagna sounds good. Maybe you could make a sort of cold meatless casserole featuring cranberry sauce, or a cranberry sauce macaroni salad. Also, you could make cranberry tofu parfait cups, though, frankly that sounds awful. Have you tried using it as an exfoliant? A tile grout? A deep folicle conditioner?
I don’t think you’ve really given this the attention it derserves.
3 thinlizzy17 // Nov 29, 2005 at 10:35 am
I bet I know of a black and white dog who would rid you of those meddlesome berries …
4 Jay_galk25 // Nov 29, 2005 at 10:39 am
/e throws a turkey at you.
Jay {you open your mouth and I’m grounded once more} “Rawr”
5 TimsHead // Nov 29, 2005 at 12:14 pm
I don’t suppose you could run them through a blender and make cranberry juice? (In case it’s not obvious enough that I have no clue in most domestic matters…) I love cranberry juice, but don’t really like the fruit much in any other form.As for grocery stores, I like them … although I don’t spend so much time in them. They are wonderfully unpredictable, with pleasant surprises of food and people always possible.
6 geekgoddiss // Nov 29, 2005 at 1:00 pm
Wow, that’s more information about cranberries than I dreamed of! RYC: The pics. I take them every couple of days. Definitely every weekend. Store some up. Some are from old, some not.
7 HaveyoumetGreg // Nov 29, 2005 at 3:09 pm
What about blending it with vodka for a sort of Cape Cod Smoothie?
8 Danareina // Nov 29, 2005 at 11:14 pm
I am so with you on the grocery store visits,I’m sure I’m there constantly yet never seem to have anything but lettuce and lentils in the house.
Regarding your cranberry sauce dilemma, my first thought was to make some basic muffins and mix the sauce through. I checked vegweb.com and there are loads of ideas there:
http://vegweb.com/cgi/search/search.pl
Let me know how it turns out, I love cooking challenges. (The stuffed squash looks amazing!)
9 rubyblue123 // Nov 30, 2005 at 2:15 am
I completely feel like I have to go to the store constantly. I think it has to do with the fact that I live with three crazy picky eaters. It’s truly a pain in the ass. I did not have your particular cranberry dilemma being that the only one who ate it likes the ribbed jelly kind and it was gone immediately. No, I had the vat of sweet potato dilemma. I thought about reviving them for a couple of days and then decided they’d had their five minutes and tossed them. ^Danareina seem to have done the research for you. Cool, let us know what you come up with.
10 peppermoon // Nov 30, 2005 at 4:55 am
What about cranberry muffins? I don’t have a recipe for you or anything, but it sounds yummy.
11 Gnarlysurf // Nov 30, 2005 at 3:16 pm
I go to the store each and every day to buy what I plan to eat. Yeah yeah go and call me crazy but thats what they do in Europe. It’s so much nice because you buy only what you need and get out. No worries. RYC: yeah I showered and changed clothes. Didn’t feel the need to be uber specific.
12 VirtuallySane // Dec 1, 2005 at 2:52 am
Well, personally I could just sit down and eat cranberry sauce with a spoon… but that might be a bit weird for most, so I suggest the highly-British and highly delicious turkey/brie/cranberry/stuffing sandwich–minus the turkey of course, and, if you like, minus the stuffing. It’s SO yummy, in any of those arrangements.
It’s also good mixed in with mashed potatoes.
Hmm… I may be giving away too much about my strange eating habits… but hope that helps!
13 MaximaBella // Dec 1, 2005 at 3:38 am
heheh, yeah, feed it to Chelsea!
I LOVE CRANBERRIES! If I was your neighbor, Id take some off your hands!
14 Brittwarner // Dec 1, 2005 at 4:38 am
Cranberry sauce is delicious with leftover stuffing. But then, I’m someone who also thinks it’s pretty delish to melt marshmallows onto stuffing – which you could still mix with some cran sauce – so perhaps my opinion should be taken with the grain of proverbial salt…and a dollop of cranberry sauce, since you’re trying to get rid of it.
15 chicagoartgirl23 // Dec 1, 2005 at 11:49 am
I HATE grocery shopping. Iused to love it when we lived close to a grocery store. Now, with a thirty minute walk–it blows. Cranberries might make a nice topping for some dry rice pilaff. Once I made a cranberry sauce to put over some stir fried purple cabbage and it wasn’t bad. Over Vanilla ice cream with gram crackers? Damn. Now I’m hungry…
16 Gabe_Real // Dec 2, 2005 at 10:57 am
If you’ve got some Vodka… you could always make Crantinis?Positive Vibes!
17 trcs // Dec 4, 2005 at 11:12 am
baked brie and cranberry? mmmm.
I don’t go to the grocery store nearly enough, which results in me eating out alll the time. Or snacking on the pathetic morsels of food I have left from the last overdue shopping trip. I much prefer the former.