[Sans-Culotte]

There are certain things I won't eat on Thanksgiving. One is the jiggly can of cranberry "sauce". I have hated it since I was a kid. I think the fact that a gelatin was called a sauce was confusing to me. I like "real" cranberry sauce that is made with real cranberries. However, it is very sweet and a little goes a long way or it will swamp the other flavors. Sometimes my wife and I make one that is made with cranberries and a whole navel orange. I don't remember the exact reipe, but you combine the cranberries and orange (peel and all) in a food processor and grind them up. You add a lot of sugar (don't remember what else) and let it sit in the fridge for a day. You get the sweet and tart flavor, but it is not overpoweringly sweet because it is uncooked and fresh.

The other ting I won't eat are mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows. I don't know where that came from, but I find it off-putting. We do have candied sweet potatoes though. We cut them in chunks and cook them in butter, brown sugar and pecans. The potatoes stay in chunks but are very soft.

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Cranberry Salad

1-1/2 cups cranberries
1 orange w/peel
1 green apple w/peel

grind and mix, add

1 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt

Make two small or 1 large cherry Jello, when semi-firm,
add ground fruit and mix.

Top with whipped cream, or if you want to impress, use
mock Devonshire cream, which is amazingly good:

3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1 Tbsp granulated sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup heavy whipping cream

In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, and salt;
stir until well blended. Stir in whipping cream. With an
electric mixer, beat mixture until stiff. Store in refrigerator.