Cranberry Salad

This is one of the dishes we have on the two turkey holidays. It came from my aunt, who brought one of these pretty pink (and delicious) salads to a family holiday dinner when I was a child. I use frozen Yukon wild cranberries, but go ahead an use your supermarket ones.

1. Grind 1/2 package cranberries. My aunt used a hand food grinder, but I just throw my frozen cranberries right in the food processer and whirl them until most of the pieces are small. And since my cranberries don’t come in packages, I use 2 cups. Put the ground cranberries in a small bowl and mix in 1 cup sugar. Let the mixture stand overnight.
2. Dissolve 1 package Knox gelatine in water according to directions given. Add water to make 1 cup.
3. Prepare 1 package Dream Whip  as directed. Mix 1/2  Dream Whip, berry mixture, gelatine mixture, and 1 small can crushed pineapple with juice, and pour it all into glass bowl or salad mold. Let set.

Other cranberry holiday recipes:

• Cranberry muffins
• Cranberry apple pie
• Cranberry cake with brown sugar sauce
  

See other holiday recipes at Semicolon. The actual date of this month’s Round Up is next Monday, the 19th, so you still have plenty of time to join in the fun by posting your favorite holiday recipe and adding your link to the list.

November's Recipe Round Up

…has been postponed until next Monday, the 19th. See the details at Semicolon.

I won’t be able to post next Monday, so I’ll be posting my recipe and linking it in Mr. Linky ahead of time. You can do that too, and Sherry encourages it:

Leave the links NOW. I’ll do a post with commentary and links on Monday the 19th.

If you post your recipe early and link it to the Round Up page at Semicolon, it’ll be excellent advertising for this month’s Round Up, too. Let’s make this one the biggest ever!

A Thankful November: Providential Care

Yesterday flew by without a thankful post from me, so to make up for lost time, I’m going to be thankful today for providential in general and two providences in particular:

• I’m thankful that youngest son made it home safely from his trip to Edmonton over the weekend. I’m thankful, too, that his trip gave him a little better perspective on his own life.
• I’m thankful that the horrid squealing sound my car started making when it was cold turned out to have a simple fix.

Other thankful folk
(Okay, that I skipped a day means I am even more likely than usual to have forgotten to include your thankful post, so help me out by sending me any missed links. Please!)

• Carla is thankful for hymns and inspiration. (Using the word inspiration next to hymns makes it sound as if its inspiration of the God-breathed sort. It’s not. But I’m not going to tell you what sort of inspiration it is.)
  
• Connie is thankful for “over-the-counter medicine, extra SLEEP, my crock pot, and my bread machine!”
• Kim is thankful for many things surrounding her father-in-law’s successful surgery.
• Columbine is thankful for her home church.
• Rosemary is thankful for tested faith.
• Ann B is thankful for a day to rest up.
• Kim is thankful for creative pursuits.
• Update: Elaine is thankful for what she has.
  

To participate in this month’s theme of thanksgiving:

• Mention something you’re thankful for in the comments here, and I’ll include it in one of my thanksgiving posts, or
  
• Email me to tell me what you’re thankful for and I’ll include it in one of the thankful posts, or
• You may post your thankful thought(s) on your own blog and send me the link(s), and I’ll link to your post.
• If you’ve posted something thankful and I missed it, please remind me.