Cranberries

[mishalak]

The molded cranberry sauce was my favorite part of thanksgiving. It's almost like a desert and that's how I would treat it at times since I didn't like pumpkin pie very much. Generally speaking I loved that holidays a lot. I had very formal ideas about tradition and the way things should be. I think I wanted to be a Victorian aristocrat. I loved the grand formality of it all and so I loved setting up the table for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Given the current state of unsettled life and how much room I have to store stuff I cannot get fancy crystal yet. But there will come a time and then I will have wine goblets, fine bone china, and heavy sterling silver place settings.

Until then I satisfy what remains of the little lordship in me by making molded cranberry sauce and sneering (in a lighthearted way that hopefully no one will take seriously) at people who get theirs out of a can. I bought three bags of cranberries for the Freehold Thanksgiving on Saturday. Hope I'm not duplicating effort.

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[ajournalguy.livejournal.com]

didn't? Does that mean you like it now?
I don't, really, but my mother claims her new pumpkin pie with orange tastes like something else entirely... even though it looks much the same to me.

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

I've been tempted to bring cranberry-orangeish stuff on Saturday, but maybe I'll do something else. I want to bake, though, so maybe I'll make tiny fruit rolls. Which would necesitate buying a couple of tiny-muffin pans. Not a tragedy, that.