Why I love/hate Martha...

While I continue to look for the letter I wrote to her (that librarian in my spare bedroom never seems to file correctly), here is a choice quotation from Martha Stewart's Christmas, p.13:

Family traditions evolve over time, and one of favorites is the yearly creation of the plum pudding. I made my very first shortly after my marriage, on the day after Thanksgiving. A friend and I concocted the recipe from old English cookbooks, and I served the pudding to our friends that Christmas, doused with brandy and mounds of creamy hard sauce. Word spread and requests poured in for puddings for next year. To keep up with the demand, I began collecting traditional English pudding bowls (in brown and white glazed pottery); I invented an oven-cooking method so we could cook thirty-two puddings every six hours; I discoved that the fruit could be chopped in a food processor a little at a time. That Christmas with just one helper, we made three hundred puddings in less that three days. While you may not wish to produce puddings on quite such a grand scale, this is one of the most wonderful giftsyou can give -- or at least to your ten dearest friends.



And you thought Carol and Elmo were scary!!!

Just think we are all already behind by 2 days. GET BAKING!