Cranberry Sauce

I'd love to make my own cranberry sauce - maybe a cranberry chutney - for Thanksgiving, but my mother insists that we have canned cranberry sauce. This isn't unusual, apparently.

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the stuff, though it can have its uses in moderation. Given the chance, I'd alter it - add some real cranberries, orange zest, and things like that, but she'd object.

I began to wonder whether there was anything I could do to make it more interesting.

If you're like me, you have a can of it in your pantry.

Waiting.

Is there a use for it other than to serve it at Thanksgiving when someone invariably requests "the kind where you can still see the can ridges?"

Yes.

...and it isn't trashy, either.