Every year around the holidays, I buy a bag of fresh cranberries. They’re great for decorating cakes, popping into festive drinks and boiling on the stovetop to make fresh cranberry sauce.

With Thanksgiving coming up next week, I found a few fun facts to share on this fascinating fruit native to North America, and some recipe ideas I hope you’ll find useful during the holidays.

When it comes to dried cranberries, I use them throughout the year in salads to add a pop of sweetness and color. There’s also an easy raw Brussels sprouts salad that I love using dried cranberries in too. The sprouts are pulsed in the food processor and tossed with lemon zest, dried cranberries, fresh chives and toasted pine nuts. Yum.

Around the holidays though, fresh cranberries take center stage.

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