The Best Part of Williams & Sonoma is the Free Cider

Well that and the iced cream scoops. Zesters, whisks and most of all iced cream scoops are my favourite kitchen implements.
I love fresh cranberry sauce. We have had a bag of cranberries in the fridge for a few weeks now. By this time I'd thought that they had gone bad, but they were super fresh when we got them and apparently cranberries save well, because when I rinsed them and picked out the bad'uns there weren't any more than usual.
To-day was a day for cooking. I tried to make myself a fancy omelet this morning- alas, no eggs. Later I discovered that we didn't have spinach or tomatoes or good cheese, either. This afternoon I wanted to make cole slaw, but the cabbage had all gone into the stir fry for dinner. However, after dinner I was finally able to marinate some mushrooms for tomorrow and make cranberry sauce. If only there had been another stick of butter I could have made toffee.
One of the best things about cranberry sauce is that it's such a social treat. While sorting good from bad -with a strainer of rinsed berries balanced in the sink, good ones into bowl, bad'uns into trash- we had the radio on and I was chatting to my mum about what to make for my anthro class "ethnic food party". If there were more people in my house who appreciated homemade cranberry sauce they would be in the kitchen enjoying the citrus-y, vanilla-ish, spiced, tart smell. Like a tangy cider. Ideally holiday.

-- G 'Bye, Sonya --

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