Waste wasn’t awful this week but it wasn’t perfect either.  I let 3 english muffins grow a blue coat for winter and somehow 2 pears went from rockhard to mushville in the space of 24 hours.  I”m going to take a second here to also thank (once again) Kristen at Frugalgirl for starting this great idea.  I know without this post on Friday’s in the back of my mind I would NOT be doing nearly as well.

I thought though it would be fun to add this mini recipe for something we all are going to have a lot of in the next couple of months; Cranberry sauce.

If you are still resorting to the gelatinous can of red goop then settle no longer.  Cranberry sauce won’t add to your already huge cooking workload for the holidays.  It can be made several days in advance and only takes a couple of minutes.  Take a bag (usually 2 cups) of fresh cranberries (you could use whole frozen ones too), 1 stick of cinnamon, 2 T. of honey and 3 T. of limoncello (you could use orange liquor OR red wine or port OR orange juice instead).  Cut an orange in half and squeeze it to release the juice.  Add the squeezed halves to the pot.