Don’t get me wrong: the cookies are beautiful. But too hard! I have a love, love less relationship with Martha Stewart. I have done a lot of her recipes and some were unbelievable. But some she clearly phoned in. And I have some of her kitchen equipment. My favorite mixing bowl that I want to use for everything is hers, the metal deep one in the perfect size with a pouring lip and a plasticized bottom to keep it still and quiet? DO NOT MESS with Mama’s bowl. I use it 3x a day I bet.
The afternoon I carved three butternut squashes into ghosts for Halloween, from her idea, I MAY have cursed her name a few hundred times.... But dang if they didn’t look really cool when done. ;)
Hilarious.
I respect Martha a lot for what she’s achieved, but I quit subscribing to the magazine a few years ago. It seemed to become a high-style thing, and didn’t have as many of the simple crafts that someone could do at home - which she seemed to have started with, and for which I began to subscribe.
It’s all too fancy for me, now - and I have heard complaints for many years about the accuracy of the recipes. I honestly don’t think I even tried many recipes, though I saved a lot of them.
Some of the ‘informational’ articles were good - I remember one about pruning a Christmas Tree that I thought was brilliant...
-JT