Posting about Pongal, the Tamil festival of thanksgiving, reminded me of a recipe for cranberry relish that I tried out last Thanksgiving. Today I bring that post out from the purgatory known as “Drafts….”
Until recently, I never heard of this thing called cranberry relish. Not that my Thanksgivings growing up followed a traditional menu—sure, there was usually turkey, but often with a second main of tandoori chicken or biriyani. But with our turkey, we almost always had a jelly-like cranberry sauce with just two flavor notes: cranberry and sugar. I assumed that was how everyone ate their cranberries on Thanksgiving Day.
Karthik and I both enjoy sweet potato so much that I have not just one but two go-to recipes for mashed sweet potatoes. I first encountered this recipe on