Cranberry apple mustard

Whenever I discover a winning recipe, it seems to be in a jar. A mason jar. I'm thinking of calling it the 'In a jar series.' If this one takes off at least. If not, we'll pretend that the last few sentences ever happened. Capiche? Good.

What is it you ask? It's apple cranberry mustard.

Yeah, I know. Are you looking at it with alarming curiosity and 

your head tilted slightly to the side?

It's fab. I promise.

Here's what I did. I took an 8 oz quilted jelly jar of my homemade cranberry sauce (my last one) and risked it on this experiment. This is how bad I wanted it to work. Now I like whole berry sauce, and that's what I canned, but I dumped it into my food processor and blended it until it was smooth. Then I took some coarse ground mustard and blended it in until I liked the taste. I did 3-4 squeezes. This is completely customize-able based on your mustard preferences. Then I spooned the cranberry mustard into a bowl. You can stop here and use it as a sandwich mustard. It's SO good. 

The brie and apple grilled cheese at Mary's Market inspired this. I used to buy their mustard under the table in low quantities and I'm so excited to have recreated my own version. 

To recreate the sandwich though, I needed apple as well, so I took about 2-3 apples worth of slices and processed them until the size of matchsticks. I mixed them right into the mustard. I'm hoping this amplifies the taste as the flavors marry. This is great on sandwiches. Grilled cheese. Salads. Makes a great cranberry sauce for turkey and even a dip. You can leave the berries whole for an even chunkier dip. 

I had to bring this to you now. Like this weekend. Because you have time to pick these ingredients up before the weekend is up to make it. Tomorrow I'll post the whole process including making the brie and apple grilled cheese. I hope you'll come back and check it out and I WHOLLY apologize for the fact that I don't have smell or taste-o-vision ;)

1 can homemade or store bought cranberry sauce (whole berry or jellied up to you)
Coarse ground mustard to taste
2-3 apples (I prefer fiji or gala in this recipe) julienne cut

Fluffimama out <3