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I made Homemade Cranberry Sauce

I grew up eating canned jellied cranberry sauce.  You know the kind that plops out of the can looking like a purple blob?  I LOVED it when I was little and I still LOVE it now.  I have it with everything from chicken and dumplings to baked chicken and of course a fabulous Thanksgiving Day feast.  But, the other day in making "Sunday dinner" , I was baking a chicken and went down to the basement to pull out some chicken broth I had cooked and stashed down in the freezer to make stuffing when I ran across two bags of Ocean Spray cranberries.  I think I bought those things a long time ago!  I probably intended to make cranberry bread out of them because that's my favorite way to eat whole cranberries, but knowing I had chicken baking and stuffing "in the works", I peaked on the bag to see how difficult making homemade cranberry sauce would be.  The recipe sounded easy and I had everything I needed.  In the past,...