Our golden formula for hosting Christmas is: the number of guests (N) + your level of culinary competence (C) + your ability to handle stress (S) + your available preparation time (T) + your budget (B) = your menu choices (M). For the sake of this week’s to-do list, I’m going to assume that:
N (the number of guests) is higher than you are comfortable with
C (your level of culinary competence), S (your ability to handle stress) and T (your available preparation time) are lower than you would like them to be
B (your budget) is healthy enough to let you cut some corners and take some liberties to compensate for low scores in N, C, S and T.
