Skip to footer

Cranberry recipes

Versatile and full of nutrients, cranberries are delicious in baked goods, as a tart relish for holiday spreads, and even mixed into smoothies. Here's how to bring a pop of red into your seasonal dishes.

9. Cape Cod cranberry orange relish

Kitchen Report
Cape Cod cranberry orange relish.

By Kendra Nordin, Kitchen Report

2 cups cranberries, chopped
2 large oranges
1 lime
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup maple syrup
1 cup toasted walnuts
1/4 cup crystallized ginger

1. Wash cranberries and coarsely chop in a food processor. Set aside in a nonreactive bowl.

2. Using a microplane, scrape the zest of the oranges and the lime into a separate bowl. Peel the oranges, removing as much of the white pulp as you can. Coarsely chop in the food processor, taking care not to pulverize the pulp. For a tangier relish, do the same with the lime (or you can leave it out).

3. Toast the walnuts and chop in the food processor; then chop the crystallized ginger.

4. Combine the zest, orange, lime, brown sugar, syrup, walnuts, and ginger with the cranberries. As relish improves as the flavors meld, prepare several hours ahead. Keeps refrigerated for one week.

Read the full post on Stir It Up!

9 of 14
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.