The Christmas Experiment: Hours 7+8: Martha in The Hiz-ouse!

As every year, we're watching some Martha Stewart.

Must. Control. Fork Of Death.

Baking Ideas For the Holidays: Martha is making some fried Polish cookies with her niece and mother. Martha and her mother keep on doing this barely concealed, passive aggressive arguing. Martha is treating her niece how she never got treated like by her mother, while the niece doesn't feel like she wants to be there between them. Seriously, the passive aggressive needling is kinda lovely.Martha will do things how she feels they should, Martha's mom will say something else, Martha will say something like. "This is how mother thinks thing's should work."

After she's gone, Martha and Mom start making a British Lardy Cake. I'm sure Ian Wilson has one of these at tea everyday! Martha's Mom, since this isn't her recipe, is much more silent. Martha is visibly happier to be back in control. Too bad the Lardy Cake looks like a less appetizing Fruit Cake.

Holiday Celebrations With Martha: Martha has made her nephew and his choir sing for her but that's not as important as Egg Nog! Yep, Martha is making her favorite Egg Nog recipe. Being Martha, it's alcoholic. Maker's Mark, Rum, and Cognac. I'm not a fan of Nog so when she says it looks beautiful, I think it looks kinda of gross.

Martha's niece is back and they're making press cookies for the choir boys. Without Mother there, Martha is more take-charge. She is giving some of the heavy lifting to the niece as well.When you're Martha Stewart, you can do that.

Martha answers a viewer question about freezing cookies. She admonishes the woman for thinking that you can freeze everything. Martha then talks about Yeast. When talking about making sure it's still good, she makes sure to tell you to check the expiration date. Even when answering questions, Martha is kinda condescending but I still like her for it.

Christmas Eve With Martha and Mario Batali: I like Mario. He's kinda cool except when he has his own show. Anyway, they mostly make Savory dishes. This is also before he got any of his own shows. Oddly enough, for once, someone sounds annoyed with Marcia. She keeps asking questions. He isn't used to this yet. He's not media savvy yet. Give him a bit of time. Sadly, it's largely uneventful so the only thing of interest is that we learn that Martha is allergic to crab so, if you ever hate her that much, there you go.

Non-Viewing Thoughts:Why do all TV Chefs assume we own giant, expensive mixers? Some of us are cheap!

Late Christmas Ideas: I wouldn't mind some new cookware. Or a giant mixing bowl!

Notable Commercials: A little girl is asking Santa for a car because she's been so good. I doubt any kid has been that good.

Tally:
Mountain Dews left: 6
Amps left: 2
Coffee Drank: 1 Bottle
Pumpkin Pie Left: 5/6ths
Sanity Rating: (1 being a carefree soul, 10 being Martha Stewart): 4