World Famous Comics: Martha's Holidays 2005 (The Holiday Collection)
Martha's Holidays 2005 (The Holiday Collection)
Starring: Martha Stewart Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Number of Items: 3 Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 11, 2005 Running Time: 498 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Amazon.com: Martha's Holidays is a very pleasant and warmly entertaining, three-disc set bursting with ideas for celebratory meals, decorating, partying, handmade gifts, and thoughtful gift-wrapping to get one through a busy Thanksgiving through New Year's Day. Start with Martha's Classic Thanksgiving for great ideas about traditional and novel ways to cook a turkey, including a "black-lacquered" recipe that might shock guests when the bird exits the oven (it has a coal-black exterior) but proves undamaged and delicious. Stewart's stuffing recipes can make one weak in the knees, especially a dish that starts with cornbread and fruit, and another that commences with apricots and prunes soaking in bourbon. (The latter could be the only stuffing recipe in history involving macadamia nuts.) There's good stuff on side dishes and desserts, too (be prepared for the cranberry-pistachio biscotti), and there are imaginative chapters on settings, centerpieces, and kids' crafts.
Martha's Homemade Holidays begin with four amazing possibilities for Christmas dinner, including one for standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding (the segment welcomes renowned chef Anne Willan), another for seafood salad (with calamari, mussels, and lobster), the third a baccala ravioli dish that could be too good to be true (both the seafood salad and ravioli come courtesy of chef Mario Batali), and the last a duck-and-pomegranate meal (by chef Dan Silverman) that thoughtfully reduces the fowl's typical fattiness. Desserts include the basics on making chocolate truffles and gingerbread people, while decorating hints accentuate the simple and colorful. A section on Hanukkah is devoted to making embossed bags full of candy, and a dish called zalabia that has its origins in 165 B.C.
Martha's New Year Celebration has loads of fun with appetizers, including a shrimp cocktail made simply and with good ingredients, and an antipasto platter that could feed a small army. The grilled curried shrimp looks irresistible, and there's a helpful chapter on bar snacks, including how to make fabulous-looking pretzel sticks with varied toppings. The "Party Drinks and Cocktails" section includes essential info on chilling champagne, but Martha also delights in concocting White Cosmopolitans (white cranberry juice and ice-cold vodka), Passion Fruit Champagne (pour the bubbly right over a spoonful of the fruit's pulp), and Snakebites (hard cider and ale). Lots of party fun for the whole family, including a confetti trick sure to delight, newspaper party hats, kids' bubble-jumping (a likely hit), and balloon decorating. --Tom Keogh
Another great Martha Video I can never get enough of Martha. Everything she does is amazing and these videos are a must have for holiday entertaining.
Excellent comprehensive set I have thoroughly enjoyed these DVDs! There is a great variety from cooking to crafts and it is nice to have a common theme to follow. If you are a fan of the old TV show or are watching the reruns on the Discovery Home channel now, you will love having these DVDs.
Everything you will need to know This DVD set will make holiday planning great fun and the tips and directions are spot on. Martha is very serious about accuracy and planning and she always has great ideas. My favorite idea was bloody mary seafood shooters what a great thing my whole family enjoyed. Another favorite are all the CHICKEN dishes. One for any occasions. This is a MUST HAVE for anyone who cooks and loves great food. This will also make a wonderful gift for someone who is trying to learn the basics and needs help and ideas like a new bride or college student.
Fun viewing and learning This is wonderful, very fun to watch and a great resource for the Martha Stewart fans! I only wish they had added more recipes and fewer craft ideas, although the whole thing is definitely very enjoyable!
Holidays with Martha I first saw Martha Stewart on PBS about 20 years ago preparing Thanksgiving dinner. I was hoping that the Thanksgiving video was that show, it wasn't. But, it was perfect Martha Stewart entertainment and delightful as were the two other videos. I do confess to being an all out Martha fan, and as a fan these videos did not disappoint.
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