Martha’s Favorite Cookies + Everyday Food – Volume
One (Cooking/Recipes/Special
Interest)
Picture: C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: B-
We have
covered several kinds of cooking DVDs already, but none yet from Martha
Stewart. Martha’s Favorite Cookies and Everyday
Food – Volume One are set up with many recipes, but preparation for each
dish is only 5 minutes! That has its
advantages and disadvantages. It may be
faster, but it takes the fun out of it and in the Everyday Food disc, some of the oddest choices cooking we have seen
to date.
Martha
hosts her own disc and offers the following:
MOLDED
COOKIES
Scottish Shortbread 3 Ways
Molasses Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Fall Leaf Cookies
SANDWICH COOKIES
Pecan and Caramel Shortbread
Chocolate Malt Cookies
Chocolate Mint Wafers
Linzer Sandwiches
Carrot Cake Cookies
DROP COOKIES
Dried
Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
Lemon
Drop Wafers
Chocolate Caramel Surprise
Lemon Cassis Bonbons
Paul
Bunyan Cookies
Mudslides
Alexis' Chocolate Chip Cookies
Snickerdoodles
Chocolate Crackles
BAR COOKIES
Fig Bars
Rocky Ledge Bars
Congo Bars
Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars
REFRIGERATOR COOKIES
Checkerboards
Fruit and Nut Cookies
French Butter Cookies
ROLLED COOKIES
Old-Fashioned
Sugar Cookies
Matcha Shortbread
Gingerbread
People
Cocconut Pinwheels
Lime Sables
PIPED
COOKIES
Langue de
Chat
Meringue Daisies
Lemon Thyme Wafers
The Everyday Food disc is more diverse and
labels everything “family” to a point of obsession. The food includes:
Family
Breakfast
Cooking
Banana-Blueberry
Smoothie
Breakfast
Burrito
Maple Oatmeal
Brown-Sugar
Glazed Bacon
Tip: Eggs
in the Hole
Cottage
Cheese Pancakes
Family
Favorites
Farfalle
with Salmon, Mint & Peas
Sautéed
Snap Peas with Scallion & Radish
Hoisin
Salmon
Tip: How
to Peel & Slice Apples
Sesame
Noodles
Apple
Cinnamon Bundt Cake
Home-Style
Favorites
Spaghetti
Puttanesca
Tip:
Roasting Beets
Arugula,
Beet & Goat Cheese Salad
Thyme-Roasted
Chicken with Potatoes
Tip:
Cutting up a Cooked Chicken
Spicy
Cheese Bread
Lively
Flavors
Running
Commissary
Asian
Salmon Patties
Tip:
Asian Noodles
Chinese
Noodles with Sesame Dressing
Tip:
Three Favorite Knives
Shrimp
with Garlic & Lemon
Curried
Tofu
Coconut
Macaroons
Cookie
Jar
Baking
Cookies for a Baseball Game
Flourless
Peanut-Chocolate Cookie
Tip:
Frozen Cookie Dough
Jam
Macaroons
White-Chocolate
Clusters with Fruit & Nuts
Shortbread
Wedges
Pistachio
Raisin Biscotti
Kitchen
Tips
Choosing
Baking Pans
Flavored
Goat Cheese
Tofu
Glossary
Both are
in 1.33 X 1 from their professional color analog NTSC videotapings. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is simple and as
clean as it could be for such simple tapings.
Extras for the Martha disc include direct link to printable recipes and
instructions while the Everyday disc offers "Meet the Cast" (1:45), text cast bios, tools & techniques,
Everyday
Food Recipes and a MARTHA Show Promo (0:50). Only get either if the food sounds like
something you would eat.
- Nicholas Sheffo
