Cranberry Sauce without sugar (two recipes)

It might sound a bit odd to have cranberry sauce without sugar mixed into it or spaghetti without noodles. But for people like me, people who are required (or otherwise just don't want to) eat things that have wheat, sugar (including sugar knock offs), starch, and or milk sometimes find it difficult to eat a large variety of food that's different (or otherwise delicious.) I'm here to help with recipes and snacky items that should help you feel better and at the same time will please (possibly heartbroken) taste buds.

It's nearly Christmas... but you or someone you know can't feast on that delicious food that everyone else will be eating. What will you do? Well, I'm here to tell you that there are things you can change so that the person who is suffering right now can in fact eat some of those delicious foods. But how, you ask?

I'll tell you how!

First thing's first. The Cranberry sauce:



You can make cranberry sauce without sugar but you don't have to leave it unsweetened. Use agave nectar or honey to sweeten the dish. (Agave nectar doesn't make it taste much different! It's almost exactly the same!)

To make cranberry sauce take 1 cup of water and 1 cup of agave nectar and boil them in a pan. Once they boil pour in the cranberries and let them simmer for ten to fifteen minutes (stir them a bit if you'd like). After that you can add whatever. Blueberries, pecans, you name it. Take the cranberries out of the pan let them get to room temperature and then chill them in the fridge. (the chilling helps it settle into the sauce.) You can serve it with the cranberries still there or you can strain them out, that's up to you. (sidenote: you can add more nectar in the first step if you don't think it's sweet enough.)

But cranberry sauce alone won't feed someone! (actually it would, but who would honestly want to eat nothing but cranberries?)

There's this delicious soup you can make...
It's called cheese and broccoli soup.



Here's the base:
half an onion
two strips of celery
garlic
one brocolli stock
half a cup of cabbage
half a pound of grated yellow cheese
two slices of provolone
milk (cow's, goat's, almond, water, broth, etc...)

Then add the spices (whatever you like of course, but here's what I used.)
mint flakes,
basil,
spinach seasoning,
pepper,
sea salt,
celery seasoning,
lemon pepper,

Begin by cutting the vegetables into little bitty pieces. They can be chopped, diced, minced or even blended to fit your liking. Then cook the vegetables in a pan on medium heat with half a stick of butter until the onions turn white/clear and the broccoli and celery achieve your desired tenderness. (I left it for about half an hour) Stir this mixture constantly.

Then put the cheese in the pan and don't stop stirring it. Do not let any of the above steps burn, even the slightest blackness of the soup will make it taste gross. slowly pour in 1 cup of milk and let that get hot. Then stir in another cup of milk and let that get hot. (2-3 cups is sufficient depending on the size of your veggies.)
Then you can serve your soup and call it good. ^_^


-For an alternate version of this soup use coconut oil for the pan, a different liquid than milk, leave out the cheese and use corn starch/flour to thicken it. (do this the same way you mix gravy: corn starch before liquid.) You can add meat, meat broth, or whatever to this recipe. And if done correctly this tastes delicious. It's a great alternative to stuffing at Christmas.