The Cave

Traditional Cranberry Sauce


Try this vegan option before serving at Thanksgiving.  After tasting this version, you will never go back to store-bought cranberry sauce!

1 and 1/2 cups fresh, rinsed cranberries
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 tsp balsamic vinegar

Combine the top three ingredients in a medium pot and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally.  Once boiling, reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes.  Stir occasionally until the cranberries break down.  Once the sauce is thickened, taste test and add the balsamic vinegar if sourness is desired.  Chill and serve.


From Out the Cave
   by Joyce Sutphen


When you have been
at war with yourself
for so many years that
you have forgotten why,
when you have been driving
for hours and only
gradually begin to realize
that you have lost the way,
when you have cut
hastily into the fabric,
when you have signed
papers in distraction,
when it has been centuries
since you watched the sun set
or the rain fall, and the clouds,
drifting overhead, pass as flat
as anything on a postcard;
when, in the midst of these
everyday nightmares, you
understand that you could
wake up,
you could turn
and go back
to the last thing you
remember doing
with your whole heart:
that passionate kiss,
the brilliant drop of love
rolling along the tongue of a green leaf,
then you wake,
you stumble from your cave,
blinking in the sun,
naming every shadow
as it slips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkUeRPjc-Y  "The Cave" by Mumford and Sons