The can may be ruining this thanksgiving dish.

Love them or hate it, there is a good chance you will see it on the Thanksgiving dinner table. Cranberry sauce according to a survey by the travel website The Vacationer cranberry Sauce tops the list of most hated Thanksgiving food. While from, food people are looking forward to most, cranberry sauce only gets 4% of the respondents.

I can totally understand people’s reaction to Cranberry Sauce, but it might not be the dish but how it’s prepared. For as long as I can remember our cranberry sauce came from a can, you knew it came from a can because it was shaped like a can, a big red cylinder in the middle of the table. Not what I would call an appetizing presentation.  I avoided Cranberry Sause until I was an adult up to the first Thanksgiving, I had Cranberry Sauce made fresh. Let me tell you, game changer! You won’t believe the difference, the sauce has a nice scarlet color and tastes amazing, with the right amount of sweet and tangy.

I know what you’re thinking, that sounds like it could be a lot of work. The reality is that its is super easy, and before you start googling a recipe, the best one I have found is on the back of the package. H-E-B Fresh Cranberry’s to be more specific. Just add water sugar and fresh cranberries into a large pot and let it simmer until the cranberries pop, and you are good to go.