Christmas Eve or Christmas Day

hey DuneLaker - I was thinking of doing a turkey during the holidays since I did not get to do my own during thanksgiving (we traveled to family).

and yes - DD! I want a Mexican Christmas too!!!!!!!!!! we'll surely squeeze in our mexican dinner too. what else shall we do? hmmmmmmmmm........... I believe we have some venison coming with BIL...

krystal

If you happen to use my BEEF Arista recipe posted elsewhere on this message board, I accidentally used the cooking directions for the original PORK Arista. With beef you need to preheat to 500 degrees and cook at 400. Also if using a whole tenderloin, we've decided that we will double the rosemary/garlic/salt/pepper next time.

Oh, and the pancakes. We prepared the recipe that daugher always uses, Alton Brown's "Instant Pancakes" from foodnetwork. Just divine with choice of blueberries, bananas, chocolate chips, and pecans (toppings plagiarized from Hibiscus ). And turkey bacon cooked on the big All-Clad grill pan tastes better than pork bacon. We had that side-by-side with the big All-Clad griddle for the pancakes. After four years I am stlll amazed by how much better food tastes when cookes on my Wolf gas cooktop.

My beef tenderloin is in the oven right now as we speak. Also mashed potatoes, green beans, cucumber salad, homemade dinner rolls, lime squares and Ghirardelli brownies for dessert, espresso (with my new espresso maker ;-))

And it's snowing!!

My beef tenderloin is in the oven right now as we speak. Also mashed potatoes, green beans, cucumber salad, homemade dinner rolls, lime squares and Ghirardelli brownies for dessert, espresso (with my new espresso maker ;-))

And it's snowing!!

Yum! Merry Christmas, JR!