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.

Before you give up on cranberries all together try just giving up the can.

Here are the ingredients for the H-E-B cranberry sauce:

1 12oz bag of H-E-B fresh Cranberries

1 cup water

1 cup sugar

We add 1 chopped fresh Jalapeno at my house.