Is your family totally devoted to canned cranberry sauce, despite all your best efforts to sway them to the world of orange-scented homemade compote? If so, maybe you're looking for a way to spice up that cranberry sauce (because serving it in the shape of the can does leave something to be desired). Paula Deen, in her trademark over-the-top style, has come up with a new way of serving canned cranberry sauce. Here's how she described it in a USA Today column. "I gave a twist to cranberry sauce one year. You take a can of the jellied sauce and slice it in quarter-inch pieces. Then you mix up cream cheese and hot sauce and a little mayo, and you make up sandwiches - no bread, just the cheese mix in between cranberries."
Sounds like an interesting approach to cranberry sauce to me, although the purists would have a heart attack if you suggested adulterating their precious canned sauce with mayo and cream cheese.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-13-2007 @ 1:48PM
carolyn said...
I love Paula Deen but even this is a bit too much to stomach for me. Mayo, cream cheese and canned cranberry sauce just sounds unappetizing.
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11-13-2007 @ 1:51PM
Brian said...
What, no butter?
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11-13-2007 @ 2:46PM
Denise Patterson-Monroe said...
What, it's not deep-fried? :D
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11-13-2007 @ 2:53PM
Miss Tiffie said...
I don't know what's worse, this or the cranberry fritters she made recently on her newest Thanksgiving Paula's Party episode...
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11-13-2007 @ 4:28PM
Laura said...
It's not a real Paula Deen recipe without a "stick o' butter!"
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11-13-2007 @ 4:29PM
Kat said...
Ew... that sounds disgusting. But that's why I love Paula Deen. "It's so gross...yet I cannot look away!!"
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11-13-2007 @ 6:07PM
Julie said...
I really don't mind the canned cranberry jelly and as much as I love Paula Deen I fear that her and her family are all going to need quadruple bypass if they continue to eat that way.This year I have decided to go with my grandmother's uncooked cranberry relish recipe: http://noshtalgia.blogspot.com/2007/11/relishing-thought-of-thanksgiving.html
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11-13-2007 @ 10:33PM
Tammy said...
She's made it on her show before ... when they were using the British's guy's house in upstate NY ... The yellow house in the opening credits ...
I've had other versions of it and it's really not that bad ...
Butter = better than all of those freaky trans fats ...
At least Paula doesn't have those lame names for food like RR uses ...
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11-14-2007 @ 6:36AM
Dave in BR said...
Yech. Even Susan Stamberg's (NPR) cranberry-onion-horseradish-sour cream-sugar sounds better (If you're interested: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176014).
Plus I have to say, Paula Deen NEVER makes me want to eat; rather she makes me want to abstain from eating for the rest of my life--and I'm a 250 lb. guy. It's not just her grossly over-the-top deep-fried lard bonbon recipes, it's her croupy Virginia Slims laugh. Just....ugh.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:13PM
TWINKIEINATLANTA said...
Well Paula is as true as they come. She is wonderful and I enjoy watching her just for the laughing. Those of you that have never tried her recipes should. You really don't know what you are missing.
Maybe it is because she is not all foo foo like others.
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11-14-2007 @ 8:21PM
he said...
oh ewwwwwww, blech!!!!!
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11-20-2007 @ 11:19PM
Fash said...
Hahaha...croupy Virgina Slims laugh!! Hilarious!
That cranberry "sandwich" looks seriously repulsive. It's just not necessary.
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12-31-2007 @ 2:51PM
Pam Jetsel said...
Anyone who doesn't like Paula Deen or her cooking is a northerner who has a stroke-out if anyone is eating anything but lettuce, broccoli, and a few other things. Paula Deen's food is awesome and some of recipes totally creative like the cranbury sauce sandwiches we thought were a real kick. Ya'll just need to lighten up, kick back and enjoy a REAL meal with love and heart thrown in to boot. In Texas, we think her recipes are good enough to knock your hat in the creek! Pam Jetsel
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