CRANBERRY SAUCE

I guess I decided that if I have been making so many things from scratch, I should make my own cranberry sauce. It looks really easy on TV when they do it. Plus, everything is better than what comes in a can... so this must be too! It was really easy, and it tasted amazing. The difference is like the difference between grocery store strawberry jam and home made.

Ingredients

12 oz bag fresh cranberries

Juice from 2 oranges

Zest from one orange

2/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup white sugar

2 oz rum

Instructions

Zest one of the oranges before you cut them in half to get the juice. Then juice the two oranges, making sure to pick out any seeds.

Put all of the ingredients into a sauce pan on medium heat. 

Don't forget the rum... I've heard that amaretto, brandy, or whiskey is good also. I would use amaretto sparingly, too much almond flavor might not be great.

As it comes to a boil, the berries will start to pop, and it will look foamy. Just keep stiring.

Eventually it will thicken and turn a deep red color... in about 15 to 20 minutes.