I'm cooking an 8 lb. tenderloin of beef. It will have a cracked green peppercorn crust with a choice of horseradish or green peppercorn sauce and be served with baked stuffed potatoes, English peas with pearl onions, and blue Hubbard squash. I can't wait.
A piece of personal info - my aunt (by marriage) is ex-Amish. She was raised in an Amish home but left the church in her late teens. You would never know she was Amish - except for her cooking skills. I usually spend the holidays with my aunt and uncle and I am treated to some exquisite Amish cooking. It's culinary heaven if you enjoy that type of home style cooking.
Grilled Venison with a peppercorn sauce, Squash soup, a pitcher of water. Desert orange rum shafan tort. I will be hosting dinner again this year for some stripper friends of mine.
Christmas Dinner will be with the family and I assume Turkey. Christmas Eve will be spent with the current fling and will be small tenderloin steaks with small lobster tails. Friday night I've got a few friends coming over for a standing rib roast and whatever they bring. Should be three days of good eats.
Turkey & ham for the main course plus mashed potatoes, green bean casserole plus a variety of breads and salads. Dessert will be pies and all kinds of cookies. There will be a ton of people there.
Considering I already had part one of my Christmas, where I went to my parents and had turkey, I suspect part 2 (the actual day) will be ham, although I won't know til I'm at my parents. But the truly sucky thing is I have to actually work that night. But hey, I got Christmas Eve off!
Mine WOULD be sushi, sashimi with assorted Japanese pickles. Hot sake. And some primo Afghanistan hash. What it's GOING to be is dry turkey, over cooked vegetable, artery clogging pasta with cheese, mashed potatoes....yuck. Good food for a starving person but not exactly my cup of sake.
My Christmas dinner, PL that I still am, will be fast food or something from an all you can eat buffet. But this will not always be so. Eventually I will have a Family of Choice, Comrades in Arms. Our women will take care of all of us, and we will provide comfort and support to each other.
If you look at Burke closely, you'll see the prototypical abused child: hypervigilant, distrustful. He's so committed to his family of choice—not his DNA-biological family, which tortured him, or the state which raised him, but the family that he chose—that homicide is a natural consequence of injuring any of that family. He's not a hit man. But he shares the same religion I do, which is revenge.
— Andrew Vachss, Horror Online, May 1999.
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