Suzy and I were determined to be prepared for Christmas this year. Even Alex came over to help. We made 2lb of delicious chocolate covered almonds — see the Martha Stewart recipe. Roasted blanched almonds, cooked in cinnamon and sugar and then coated with semi-sweet chocolate. It ended up more like chocolate almond chunks for us because we were not willing to manually separate hundreds of little almonds. Now that they’re all gone, five days before Christmas, we’ve decided to make another batch Sunday for our friends and guests.