It can be meticulous cleaning and preparing fresh cranberries for a cranberry sauce. While canned cranberry sauce might not be your first choice with homemade dishes, you can still add ingredients to make it taste just as good as a dish created from scratch.

Cranberry sauce is one of those hotly contested Thanksgiving food items that always seem to stir up drama around the table. There’s the jellied, store-bought cranberry sauce camp, which prefers round slices of cranberry sauce that look a little like dog food on the side of their plate.

Garten places the canned cranberry sauce into a pot and adds a few tablespoons of freshly squeezed orange juice, about a teaspoon of orange zest and half of a grated apple. She cooks this at a simmer, letting all the flavors mingle and meld—though the apple adds more than just flavor.