artemisdart | Post 173) from Xanga

173) Now I see why people feel so inadequate when they compare themselves to Martha Stewart.

I was watching "Martha Stewart Living" on morning TV while killing time before meeting a friend. I caught her "Cookie of the Week" segment.

She made Scottish shortbread-- no problem. I've done that myself and it's very good.

But she made half the dough plain, half cocoa-flavored-- then she used cute little Scottie dog copper cookie cutters (available from her online store!) to cut the dough into adorable little Scottie dog shapes--

then she baked them and then she tied plaid ribbons around their necks like a leash, and put the loose end through the handle of a cup of hot chocolate! And of course the cup is exquisite white china, on an exquisite white china saucer!

I'm a good cook, and I tend to keep my head in the kitchen-- but I just know that if I tried this recipe, I would end up beheading the little dogs in my clumsiness with the plaid ribbons-- and then I would have to serve little beheaded Scottie dogs to my guests, next to their cup of hot chocolate.

How morbid.