I love Elana’s Pantry!

I do NOT love agave (more on that another time), which is heavily employed in many of her recipes.  Her recipes are a great springboard, however, although some recipes-with-agave are harder to adapt than others.

We’ve used her recipe for Raw Cranberry Sauce for several major holiday meals now and really like it.

If you need a good GF/SF recipe for cranberry sauce, you should check it out!  (Note: it does call for dates, which I try to use sparingly.  Therefore, I usually substitute Vanilla Creme Liquid Stevia, to taste)*.  It also calls for fresh cranberries, one orange and one lemon.

*Update: Since then, I’ve loosened my standards a bit 🙂 and am totally fine with the dates now.  In fact, this year (2013) I added more dates to take the edge off the tartness.

And by the way, my sauce pictured above was made in the Vitamix.  Pre-chopping the dates and making the sauce in a food processor should yield a more chunky sauce, if that’s what you’re after.

Looks like Elana is also currently highlighting a variety of Thanksgiving-ish recipes….let me know if you try any of them!

Happy Thanksgiving!