From Martha Stewart, of course

Please accept my apologies for being obsessed with sugar this week. Last year while pregnant, my no-sugar stance was really hard on me during the holidays. This year, I’m free, free, free! (Well, not really in terms of the weight I want to lose, but at least now I can moderately indulge.)

For the past couple years, I’ve gone to friends’ house for Thanksgiving dinner. Last year, a woman made the most delicious maple pear cheesecake. I can’t really attest to its deliciousness, but people were seriously swooning over it (and not just in that I’m-trying-to-be-polite-by-telling-you-this-is-good way).

So this year, I’m all about making

I was flipping through the most recent issue of Better Homes & Gardens, and I came upon an image of a glass jar full of marshmallows. Yes! I need exactly that kind of jar in my kitchen, too.

Since I was pregnant last year at this time and limiting my refined sugar intake, I didn’t drink a single cup of hot chocolate. This year is going to be different!

Two years ago, I made these marshmallows from scratch, but I vowed never to use gelatin again. I’m a vegetarian and shouldn’t be using gelatin in the first place, but the smell of plain gelatin plus water was exactly