I could not believe my eyes when I saw a few packets of fresh cranberries at the fruit section at Tesco, Ipoh !!! I was practically jumping up and down on my trotters and I must have oinked out loud coz Wild Boar asked me " what is wrong with you ? " Seeing me...grabbing packets of fresh cranberries off the rack into the trolley , he thought I have gone crazy ...!!! He is not a fan of fresh cranberries unlike me, I yearn for it most of the time ....When I can't get the fresh ones, I used dried ones for my bakes which lack the bitterish taste. Dried ones are sweetened so they are not my cup of tea but fresh ones comes with a slight tang and bitterish...that makes me like it so much. There were about 5 packets left on the rack and I wanted to take them all but on second thoughts where am I going to store them in the freezer...there is hardly space now that I am almost making fruit popsicles everyday :p So I grabbed 3 packets of them.....they came just in time for my Xmas cooking !!! Cranberry sauce is good for roast chicken or turkey and now I am thinking of cupcakes, cakes and muffins with these 'hard to get' fresh cranberries . Yay ! Fresh cranberries now filled my dreams...and I noticed that Tesco usually have them in the month of November nearing to Christmas and boy ! I am one lucky Momsie ! Ain't I ??? And they were fresh and big too ! I will be watching out for great recipes that uses fresh cranberries in the next few weeks and if you happened to have a good one please share with me by leaving your link here for me :) Thank you and I am so excited now...LOL! I have to pinch myself a few times to believe that I really have them in my freezer ! And you know what, I regretted not taking the whole lot back home with me , then I could have fresh cranberries all the year through !
Watch out for more cranberries goodies in the next few weeks.......
and have a nice day :)
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i need to go nearby Tesco to look for this cranberry, because this year i planning to roast my 1st Turkey and need to prepare some cranberries sauce..Thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteElin, where did you get the Dijon mustard?
ReplyDeleteI got mine from the Wah Seng, Ipoh, baking supplies :) Hard to get from the supermarket in Ipoh but I think you can get them from Cold Storage in Mid Valley. I saw them at Mid Valley Cold Storage some time back :)
ReplyDeleteYum! I'm so used to seeing them in canned form.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for telling us it's BITTER!
ReplyDeleteI might have got my own pack of it if you didn't tell me it's bitter. LOL!
Wendy....hahaha slight bitterish aftertaste but pleasant anyway :) And when you cook them into sauce, with sugar and lemon juice added, it will be fine. You must try once at least once , then you will grow to like it. Goes well with cheesecake and sauce for roast stuffed turkey :))))
ReplyDeletei saw it in Jusco too, on a very rare occasion though, quite pricey for a small packet, if this can be frozen, then i must start to look out for it.
ReplyDeleteSem...yes can be frozen and can keep for months :)))Yup rare occasion though. You can imagine how happy I was to be able to purchase these much :)
ReplyDeleteHi Elin,
ReplyDeleteThis may be the first time I posted here... Seeing you being so in love with those packets of fresh cranberries made me smile, because, believe it or not, I just bought the same packet of fresh cranberries :). The brand also sounds fresh, Ocean Spray or something like that, I think. I'm keeping it in my fridge and I would like to bake a cranberry upside-down cake with it, because my family love upside-down cake for its caramel sauce. I think David Lebovitz has one of the best upside-down cake recipes out there. I've used his recipe many times. If you want to try it, please go to davidlebovitz.com and look for "Upside-down cake recipe". He did mention that he made it with fresh or frozen cranberries too.
I hope to see many delicious recipes with fresh cranberries on your blog :).
RPVN....thanks for the link. Shall check it out and make it myself. I am glad that you too bought a packet of Ocean Spray fresh cranberries :) Fresh Cranberries are best for making cakes and sauce for roasted meat :) Yea, it can be frozen and when you thaw it , it is just as good as when you first bought it :) You have a nice blog and I shall visit it more often :) for it is good to exchange views on certain topics :)
ReplyDeleteI want to go Tesco too! Haha, you are so cute, but I think if I happen to be in your situation, I will act the same too. Hope I can get some to bake some cakes :)
ReplyDeleteThe Holiday season is just around the corner so you will see a lot of fresh cranberries here. Ocean Spray is a famous brand here. I am happy that you are able to find fresh ones there :)
ReplyDeleteso far i've only seen it once in jusco. Yes, very rare to see fresh cranberries here..must be expensive too! see i will be lucky as you the next time i go tesco!
ReplyDeleteMin...I am cute leh...not sure there are any left coz there were two packets left when I bought them....they may have newer stock since it is cranberry season now in US :)
ReplyDeleteGertrude...over here very rare we see them and they finished fast...I am lucky...last year I managed to get two packets...and from KL Jusco..Ipoh hard to get...so I bought them and stock them up in the freezer so that I get to use them thru out the next few months :) and now Xmas dinner will have some cranberries sauce :p
Lena....yea maybe now season...but I did not see any at Jusco last week I was there. Guess I was lucky...was there in Tesco at the right moment :)))))
Elin, managed to get myself one packet of this from Jusco just now. So excited to see them there, haha! I'm thinking hard what I want to do with them :)
ReplyDeleteMin so happy for you. Lots of bakes you can do with it.keep in freezer. Can last a few months ;)
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