Comments on: Gingerbread a la Marketman, Part III

By: MrsA

MrsA — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 04:31:06 +0000

MM, I just wasnt to re-iterate what all you other views have said, you have truly become an inspiration to us in so many ways; giving the best of yourself to your child, promoting our local culinary offerings, showing us that we too can become gourmets, all this has been shown as a possiblitliy by you. so thanks for sharing your thoughts with us, we are blessed. I pray the holidays are wonderfull for you and your family and the comming year to be even better than this one.

By: Mik

Mik — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:38:30 +0000

MM, what a great dad you are! Reading your gingerbread posts made me rethink my christmas plans this year. As this will be our first christmas as a family unit, I stayed up all night thinking about what sort of lasting traditions I can start in my own family and today I’m doing the legwork on it –no, not gingerbread houses (yet!) but something(I hope!) that will mean as much to us as your gingerbread houses mean to your family. :)

By: bettina

bettina — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:44:16 +0000

MM, I think the biggest gift you are giving this Christmas – other than the daily dose of wonderful posts and your food gifts – is that you inspire us to live better lives and be better parents, at least that’s how it is for me. Good childhood memories are priceless :)

By: asunta

asunta — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:58:44 +0000

MM, I was thinking of making a gingerbread house too this Xmas to start a yearly tradition now that my eldest is in preschool and will appreciate it but dont know how i will manage to finish the construction with her eating all the candies. I can just imagine the look on her face when she sees all the candies!! !

By: consol

consol — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:34:44 +0000

What a wonderful bonding experience with The Kid! You’re absolutely right, dear MM, memories of the gleeful decorating (and mouth-popping of the goodies which are, as Joey said, mind-boggling) of the gingerbread house will be seared into memory. Quality time, indeed! You’re such a fun cool Dad, I almost wish I were a child again *sigh*

Here’s hoping that you and your precious family have a glorious blessed Christmas and an even more prosperous New Year, surrounded by love, health, peace of mind, good cheer, and great scrumptious food! And that goes for the legions of your admirers/readers who await and enjoy your posts.

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:13:43 +0000

You must be the coolest dad ever?! You must hear that a lot from The Kid.

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:26:34 +0000

Fond memories with family members and friends are priceless. They are forever embedded in our memory chips. Foods/candies bring people together. The candies bring a lot of life to the gingerbread house. They sparkle, give beauty and kaleidoscopic effect and great teasers too.

By: joey

joey — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:55:57 +0000

That array of candy is mind boggling! I think I will wait for a kid of my own before doing this because (don’t think I’m weird!) I don’t eat candy (!!!). Yikes, I know. But the gingerbread with “snowy white icing” sounds great!

Although…even if I don’t eat the stuff, it all does look gorgeous, like jewelry :) It reminds me of this cake in Tessa Kiros’ book Apples for Jam on which she sticks candies all over the icing…It’s so vivid and flamboyant! And everyone could use a little flamboyance in life (and to hell with the expense!) I totally agree with you on the memories…these are definitely the things remembered (along with wild scavenger hunts!) :)