Cranberry Sauce

Just one of the best cranberry sauces ever!  This is so unbelievably delicious that it's hard to stop with one serving.  It's also good over vanilla ice cream, cheesecake, and can even be used as a dip (pour over cream cheese and serve with crackers).  I mean, how could any recipe that has Grand Marnier as an ingredient possibly be dull and boring? 



Ingredients:
1 pound fresh cranberries
3/4 cups sugar (or more to taste, but I only use 3/4 as I love the sweet/tart flavor) -- if you want it sweeter, keep adding until you are satisfied
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
*1/2 cup cranberry juice
finely grated zest of 1 orange
1 cup dried cherries
**1 1/2 shots of Grand Marnier (add at end of cooking, after removing from heat)

Directions:
Pick through the cranberries, rinse, then drain well.  Combine cranberries, sugar, orange juice, cranberry juice, and orange zest in a heavy duty medium size saucepan.  Place over medium heat; boil slowly until the berries pop -- about 10 minutes.

Skim the foam off the surface with a metal spoon if necessary -- remove mixture from heat and stir in the cherries and 1 1/2 shots of Grand Marnier.

Allow mixture to cool to room temperature.  Cover and refrigerate.  This will last up to one month.

Serves 12

* Cranberry juice in the grocery store is loaded with sugar (cocktail juice) -- try to find the organic 100% cranberry juice -- ask your grocer to help.

**You will need to locate a liquor store to purchase the Grand Marnier -- so delicious!