For many people cranberries are just a vehicle for helping manage dry turkey and as such are just eaten once a year: on Thanksgiving, mixed in with mashed potatoes, turkey and gravy. The reality is there are so many ways to enjoy cranberries! It's time to give these ruby colored gems another look, after all Massachusetts was born with cranberry bogs, making cranberries the official state berry, They're full of antioxidants, with the highest level of phenols, and lend themselves to many uses. Explore the many ways here to enjoy this delicious, locally grown fruit.
You know what kids love? Applesauce. How about brightening it while adding a richer hues AND upping the vitamin C and K content: cranberry applesauce. Yes, please, we say!
Serve these ruby gems for breakfast with yogurt and granola. Dollop your cranberry sauce onto yogurt, sprinkle with granola and top with your favorite nut for a quick breakfast. Good on-the-go too!
A shrub is a sweetened vinegar-based syrup, also sometimes referred to as a "drinking vinegar." It can be served in a variety ways. You can drink shrubs straight, mixed with club soda or in cocktails. Here's a recipe for a crackin' cranberry sage shrub. To make a delicious cranberry shrub cocktail, try this:
Mix up your salsa game with this recipe for cranberry salsa. Serve it with chips; on top of fish tacos; with crackers and cream cheese; you might even consider substituting it for the cranberry sauce you usually serve at Thanksgiving.
Smoothies are a great way to start the day, but if you're like us you find yourself making the same strawberry-banana smoothie over and over and over again. Break out of your smoothie rut with this recipe for cranberry plum green smoothie.
Chocolate cranberry cake with chocolate icing
How amazing does that look? Don't you need a tall glass of milk just from looking at that cake? Here's the recipe. Grab your apron and preheat the oven. It's cake o'clock.