The Starving Musician Recipes
15 Ways to Use Leftover Homemade Cranberry
Sauce
Got leftover homemade cranberry
sauce? Starving musicians can eat quite well by adding a few other
ingredients...
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A couple of tablespoons of
very cold plain cranberry sauce is excellent on Jinjer's Secret Day
After Thanksgiving Chicken Enchiladas.
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An excellent dinner entree
for 2: Season two thick pork chops with salt, freshly ground pepper and
a little rosemary and grill to desired doneness on a grill pan or
countertop grill. Meanwhile, in a small sauté pan in 1 Tablespoon butter
sauté a chopped apple or two (peel 'em if you like) 'til they start to
turn golden. Add a small dash of cinnamon, a smaller dash of cloves, a
dash of salt, freshly ground pepper, and 1 Tablespoon brown sugar; stir
'til sugar is melted. Add some chopped walnuts or pecans, mix in an
amount of cranberry sauce equal to the apple mixture, and serve warm
with the grilled pork chops.
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My favorite post-holiday
breakfast: Use icy cold cranberry sauce like jam on a hot crusty roll,
toasted bagel, or warm croissant.
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Another great post-holiday
breakfast: mix light cream cheese and cranberry sauce to taste (2-1
ratio up to 1 to 1 ratio) and spread on bagels, banana bread, waffles,
or use in stuffed French toast.
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A tasty snack: spread the
above cranberry sauce-cream cheese mixture on Triscuits, top with a thin
slice of ham, and garnish with a tiny bit more cranberry sauce.
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Cranberry sauce goes great
with cheeses like aged cheddar, gruyere Swiss, bleu, or brick, so
experiment. Grilled cheddar, Swiss, and turkey sandwiches anyone? Or put
cheese and a little cranberry sauce on a Triscuit or Ritz cracker. (This
is excellent nuked in the microwave before adding the cold cranberry
sauce.)
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Make an upscale sauce to
serve with chicken, turkey, duck, grilled wild salmon, or grilled pork
chops: Heat plain or Christmas Cranberry Sauce with a little orange
juice or apple cider, or even leftover sparkling cider or flat champagne
(if you use champagne, simmer a minute or two to cook out the alcohol).
Add freshly ground (coarsely-ground) black pepper and a little salt to
taste. Take it even further if you like by simmering it with a sautéed
thinly-sliced sweet onion, a finely-chopped shallot, and a dash of
balsamic or raspberry vinegar (but don't use the balsamic vinegar with
orange juice; either eliminate the vinegar or use a different juice).
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Thin cranberry sauce with
orange juice or apple juice, add a little honey, and heat mini smoked
sausages or cocktail franks in it.
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Do the same thing, minus
the sausages, and use as a dip for chicken nuggets.
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If you have a cup or more
leftover cranberry sauce, use it to make cranberry bread, substituting
an equal amount of cranberry sauce for the cranberries called for in the
recipe.
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Or, layer cranberry sauce
into a cinnamon streusel coffee cake: prepare a box of coffee cake mix
batter and topping as directed on the package, and layer it with
leftover cranberry sauce to which you've added a tablespoon or two of
brown sugar to balance the flavors. Top with the streusel mix as
directed and bake. (You can also bake it in cupcake liners or muffin
tins.)
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Top plain New York style
cheesecake with a little cranberry sauce.
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Make a Cranberry fizz: Put
a tablespoon of cold cranberry sauce in the bottom of a chilled
champagne glass; top with cold sparkling cider, champagne, ginger ale,
Sprite, or 7:Up.
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Mix a tablespoon of
cranberry sauce with 1/4 cup mayo and 1/4 teaspoon finely chopped fresh
rosemary and use it on a turkey sandwich. Or eliminate the rosemary and
make your turkey sandwich on rosemary foccacia bread.
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Mix butter and cranberry
sauce in a 2-1 ratio; use on waffles or French toast, or even on grilled
salmon.
Thanksgiving Cranberry Sauce
Christmas Cranberry Sauce
Recipes ©2004
Randi Reed
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