Going wild

So last night I decided to open up my bag of wild rice that's been collecting dust. I researched online and found out that I can put cranberries in there which I happen to have a box of also. So I boiled the rice for about 30 minutes added cranberries and parsley a little olive oil and salt and it was terrible! Yes terrible! I had to throw it out ! Cooking is definitely a learning process. The most wonderful thing is when friends or family members eat your food with a smile even though they don't think it's that great.Granted it's going to be a shock to eat pumpkin pie that has 99.9 of the fat and sugar taken out of the recipe. My dad for example said " I'd rather eat things that taste good" lol! So back to my wild rice ..I had to eat the rice and it was so bad :/ halfway through the bowl I decided to dump it out..I still have the rest of my wild rice bag..I would love to hear your recipes!