Cranberries - Blog Posts

Cuisine - German - Nana's Cranberry Kuchen For a fruity tasting and festive-looking cake, try this holiday kuchen topped with fresh cranberries and a sugary crumble.

And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins

Thanksgiving Muffins - Muffin Sweet potatoes, pecans, and sweetened cranberries come together in these Thanksgiving-themed muffins perfect for the holiday table.

Salad - Tuna Salad - Asian Tuna Salad The vegetables and dried cranberries in this Asian-inspired tuna salad are dressed with an Asian-inspired chile paste, soy sauce, honey, and mayonnaise.

Cranberry Cupcakes with White Chocolate Frosting - Holidays and Events With just a hint of orange flavor, this recipe produces a light, tender cranberry cupcake that is then topped with a creamy, buttery white chocolate frosting.

Sauces - Berry Cranberry Sauce Cranberries, blueberries, and raspberries team up for a fruity version of cranberry sauce to serve alongside holiday main dishes.

Roasted Acorn Squash with Apples and Cranberries - Side Dish This roasted acorn squash with apples and cranberries is a fantastic autumn side dish that's ideal for Thanksgiving. It's nutty, savory, tart, and sweet.

Bread - Easy Cranberry-Orange Muffins

So currently one of the relatives I'm staying with has a UTI and has therefore been prescribed treatment. One of which is a dietary supplement intended to maintain urinary health that happens to boast of tasting like cranberries.

To me, cranberries are famously unpalatable so I cannot fathom why they'd be flavoured this way.

It brings to mind the time the vague recollection of the time the president of a company in the US that makes cranberry juice had to complain about the FDA's desire for them to show the public how much sugar was in a single bottle of juice by admitting that cranberries had an unpalatable taste that needed to be altered.

It also reminds me of how cranberries are farmed; they are lighter than water and so float so every cranberry harvest the farmers flood the fields and collect what floated. Unfortunately that includes the spiders they used to prevent common prey from eating their cranberries. The spiders would grab onto what's closest to not drown and then jump onto the poor human harvesting the cranberries who had to be sure not to make any sudden movements or would be bitten and therefore in incredible pain.

I thought of all of this and it wouldn't leave my head and realised; 'hey you know where you should spew all of this barely organised and cognizant word vomit? Tumblr!'