Recipe: Cranberry, Sausage and Cream Cheese Crostini

By: Andrea Mathis

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting super excited about Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving means a lot to me because it brings my family together. We cook, laugh and, of course, eat. Everyone has their special dish that they enjoy cooking. My husband is always in charge of the turkey and ham, my mom likes to make deviled eggs and collard greens, my oldest sister likes to make the casseroles, my other sister enjoys “tasting” and giving her input, my mother-in-law likes to make the sweet potatoes, my dad likes to make pound cakes; the list could go on and on … but my absolute favorite thing to make is the appetizers.

While the food is cooking, everyone is usually so hungry as they wait in anticipation for the food to be done. I enjoy preparing a light but satisfying appetizer to help take away those hunger pangs. For this appetizer, I wanted to create something sweet and savory. I’m a huge fan of cranberry sauce and wanted to incorporate that into my appetizer. I enjoy making homemade cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, but for some reason I still enjoy the jellied, canned cranberry sauce. Strange, right? But for this recipe, I made a super easy cranberry sauce.

When making my cranberry sauce, I always like to cut my cranberries in half. This allows for it to mingle with the sauce a little better. Cutting small pieces of fruit has always been such a tedious task, but thanks to Slice-X, I was able to slice several cranberries in half at one time. Not to mention its ability to help save my fingers while cutting small items.

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