Fresh Cranberries (A Recipe Round-Up!)

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It's funny to me now, but I used to be very intimidated by fresh cranberries. I think that's probably because I didn't grow up ever seeing or using them. For Thanksgiving and Christmas my mom always made sure to have a can of cranberry sauce available for those who wanted, but never because she liked it. It was one of those things, like pumpkin pie or turkey, you just had to have it or someone would feel like it wasn't really a holiday dinner. 

Now, I can't get enough of fresh cranberries. I love putting them in smoothies, using them in baked goods, mixing them with my morning oatmeal, or any other way I can think to enjoy them.

I decided to ask my fellow food bloggers for their favorite recipes, using fresh cranberries. This is what we came up with. Enjoy!

Fresh Cranberries (A Recipe Round-Up!)

Sauces, Relishes, Curds and Krauts

• Orange-Apple Cranberry Sauce by Live Simply

• Cultured Cranberry Sauce by ME

• Cranberry Sauce with Maple Syrup by Accidentally Green

• Cranberry Cherry Apple Sauce from Recipe to Nourish

• Cranberry Chutney by Joyful Thrifty Home 

• Loaded Cranberries by JarOHoney

Cranberry Christmas Curd from Larder Love

• Christmas Cranberry Curd Larder Love 

• Cranberry Raspberry Relish by Fork and Beans

• Cranberry Sauce with Dates by The Ezer Wife 

• Rose hip & Cranberry Compote: Your Vitamin C Boost! by Herb Mentor 

• Cranberry Pear Chutney by Divine Health

• Cranberry Relish (SF) by Larder Love

• Cranberry Sauce with Pineapple by Untrained Housewife

• Quick and Easy Cranberry and Orange Relish by Real Food Whole Health 

• Spicy Pineapple Cranberry Chutney by Pickle Me Too 

Baked Goods

• Apple Cranberry Pie by Real Food Family 

• 
Lemon Cranberry Drop Biscuits by Schneider Peeps 

Spicy Pineapple Cranberry Chutney from Pickle Me Too

• 
Cranberry Orange Birthday Scones by Don't Waste the Crumbs 

• Apple Pear Cranberry Crisp by Homegrown and Healthy

• Cranberry Bread by Megan Lierman 

• Gluten Free Vegan Cranberry Orange Muffins by Tessa the Domestic Diva

• Naturally Sweetened Cranberry Oatmeal Crumble Bars by Just Making Noise

• Sourdough Cranberry-Orange Muffins by ME.

Drinks

• Cranberry Ginger Smoothie by Happy Healthnut

Creamy Pumpkin-Cranberry Smoothie by Tess the Domestic Diva   

• Cranberry Nettles Tea from Divine Health

• Creamy Pumpkin-Cranberry smoothie by Tessa the Domestic Diva 

And a few more delicious ideas...

• Cranberry Fruit Leathers by Carolyn of Gutsy 

• Cranberry Mint Mousse by Happy Healthnut

Yum! So many wonderful, delicious ways to enjoy fresh cranberries. I am excited to try them all. 

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What's your favorite way to enjoy fresh cranberries?

Jackson's Honest Chips: Review and GIVEAWAY ($59.88 VALUE)

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I have a confession.

I love chips. 

And when I say love, I mean love, as in close to worship.... Of all the foods I have given up since switching to a diet full of "real food" (as opposed to processed cr**) giving up chips is something I've done... sometimes.

Sure, I choose the organic, non-gmo versions of chips... but they are still chips. They are still made with rancid vegetable oils which I really, really, really should not be putting in my body.

So discovering Jackson's Honest Chips was a BIG. DEAL. 

It's coconut oil, baby!

What's different about these chips? They are fried in coconut oil! Goodbye rancid vegetable oil. Hello goodness. We have all heard the health benefits of coconut oil, even if not everyone understands just how bad vegetable oils are for our health....

The ingredient list on Jackson's Honest Chips reads as follows: organic potatoes, organic coconut oil and sea salt. That's it, folks. Honest, to honest, goodness. And only that.

I know they are better for me... But how do they taste? 

So what do chips fried in coconut oil taste like? Well, let's be honest, they taste different than what you are used to potato chips tasting like. There is a definite flavor difference. Vegetable oils are processed, denatured, stripped, and destroyed until they are a lifeless, death-giving, tasteless, rancid version of something our ancestors would have never recognized as food.

Coconut oil, however, has a taste, a flavor, it has character. So, yes, these chips taste different than your regular potato chips. And they are delicious. It took me three or four chips to adjust to the flavor difference... but than I had no problem eating four bags over less than two days. (Did I just say that? That's embarrassing....)

I already have so many ways I love to use coconut oil every day, I guess I can add eating chips to that list! And I highly recommend you do, too.

All in the family...

While I am sharing with you things I love about Jackson's Honest Chips, let me add one more thing. This company is legit, folks. They are a family. They are not some mass corporation that puts a picture of a family on their product to make it look like they are a family business, they truly are a small (very small) family business. Hop on over to their website and read their "our story" page and I promise you will fall in love with them just like I did.

And once you learn the story of how these chips came about you will want to help support this amazing family even more! These parents are unbelievably inspiring.

There you have it. That's my review. Now order yourself some chips. And while you're at it, enter to win a WHOLE case below!

Athena loves Jackson's Honest Chips just as much as I do! She's savoring her bite. 

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Note: a big thank you to Jackson's mom, Megan, for sending me some chips to review and for giving away some of her wonderful product for one of you to enjoy as well. <3