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Thanksgiving Recipe: Make Ahead Cranberry Sauce

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Make Thanksgiving easier on yourself with this make ahead recipe for cranberry sauce.

When you think about Thanksgiving a few weeks in advance, it probably leaves you with a warm feeling. On the holiday, friends and family gather to share a traditional meal, express gratitude, and enjoy each other’s company.

On the day of Thanksgiving, you might be feeling differently. If you’re the chef to whom the bulk of the cooking falls, this day can get pretty crazy. Between preparing a fairly large bird, crafting plenty of side dishes, and still being expected to turn out a decent looking pie or two, Thanksgiving isn’t easy in the kitchen.

We know the struggle, and we want to help! That’s why we’ve handpicked this Thanksgiving recipe for cranberry sauce that you can make ahead. To take at least one thing off your to-do list, you’ll need:

  • 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter
  • 2 tablespoons of freshly grated ginger
  • 1 cup of orange juice
  • ½ cup of dark brown sugar
  • 16 ounces of fresh or frozen cranberries
  • ½ cup of orange marmalade
  • 2 tablespoons of minced cilantro
  • ½ teaspoon of black pepper

Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium. Add the ginger and cook for two minutes, stirring regularly. Add in the orange juice, sugar, and cranberries.

Cook until the cranberries burst open, forming a thick sauce. Stir in the marmalade and remove from the heat.

Right before you serve the sauce, stir in the cilantro and pepper.

You can make this sauce up to four days in advance; just keep it refrigerated!

Happy Thanksgiving from Stromsoe Insurance Agency. For all of your insurance needs throughout California, contact us today!

Tips For Insuring Your Holiday Gifts

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Scheduled Personal Property Coverage

As you enjoy looking lavish in your new expensive gifts and your children continue running around the house playing with their new holiday gifts, it becomes increasingly more important that you add insuring your holiday gifts to your to-do-list. Many individuals fail to realize the importance of this task, assuming they have coverage through their homeowners insurance policy.

In reality, your homeowners insurance policy comes with a limited amount of coverage for your personal belongings, therefore, you may find out that you are lacking coverage when you are in need of it most. Imagine the terror of purchasing a brand new gaming console for your children only to have it ransacked by a criminal who noticed the Xbox packaging in your dumpster. Not only would you be short the money spent on the console, but you would also have to file a homeowners insurance claim.

Scheduled personal property coverage provides homeowners with a logical solution to insuring valuables. Each scheduled item under this form of coverage will be appraised by a professional, so that your insurance provider can reimburse you for any losses at replacement cost value. This means that the depreciation of the item will not be calculated when it comes time to reimburse you for a loss.

Items worth scheduling include but are not limited to fire arms, family heirlooms, jewelry, collectibles, electronics, and fine art. Through this form of coverage, items are replaced to you whenever they are damaged, stolen, or simply misplaced.

If you are ready to start insuring your valuables for what they are worth, please do not hesitate to give us a call. Contact Stromsoe Insurance Agency for all of your California homeowners insurance needs. We can add scheduled personal property coverage to your policy so that insuring valuables becomes a simple task.