Actually, in my house we usually have two kinds of cranberry sauce.  I like the kind with the whole berries, and Marty likes the jellied kind. 

For the whole berry sauce, I get a bag of cranberries and follow the instructions on the back for cooked cranberry sauce, something like "one bag berries, one cup water, one cup sugar, boil 10 minutes."  Easy as pie.

And I get a can of the jellied stuff for Marty, and open it up.  Sometimes for a joke I leave it in the shape of the can, and bring it to the table standing up straight on a fancy little plate.  Poor Marty.

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