Christmas Day Activities 2014

[goyguy]

The goyguy-extended-family Christmas dinner's main dish was beef tenderloin from...Jungle Jim's?!
I ain' lyin'! And it was good, too!

On the 26th I did penance for consuming dead cow the best way I know, at the Amma's Kitchen lunch buffet. My favorite food there - "Gobi Manchurian" cauliflower, everybody's least desired cruciform veggie cooked up all sweet-and-sour-like - was in abundance. This time the kitchen magic really showed in one of the desserts, which was said to be made from yogurt and chickpeas yet somehow tasted like butterscotch brownies! The place even got a visit from their kosher-certifying rabbi (I'm sure there are Hebrew and Yiddish words describing such a person) and from what I could tell they were able to keep their certification.

Bacon schnecken (!) and peppermint ice cream from Graeter's helped make for Xmas eating that could only be done in Cincinnati.

[kjbrill]

Originally Posted by goyguy

The goyguy-extended-family Christmas dinner's main dish was beef tenderloin from...Jungle Jim's?!
I ain' lyin'! And it was good, too!

On the 26th I did penance for consuming dead cow the best way I know, at the Amma's Kitchen lunch buffet. My favorite food there - "Gobi Manchurian" cauliflower, everybody's least desired cruciform veggie cooked up all sweet-and-sour-like - was in abundance. This time the kitchen magic really showed in one of the desserts, which was said to be made from yogurt and chickpeas yet somehow tasted like butterscotch brownies! The place even got a visit from their kosher-certifying rabbi (I'm sure there are Hebrew and Yiddish words describing such a person) and from what I could tell they were able to keep their certification.

Bacon schnecken (!) and peppermint ice cream from Graeter's helped make for Xmas eating that could only be done in Cincinnati.

That sounds like a fine Christmas and day after gastronomic punctuation.

The Brill family had nothing planned for Christmas, no guests, no going anywhere, no nothing.

I had decided that was no reason for not preparing a Christmas dinner fit to consume. Our dinner's main dish was also beef tenderloin from ... Costco! and it was good too. Naturally I had cut the tenderloin into thirds to avoid burying us in leftovers.

Late on Christmas Eve my oldest daughter who lives with us exclaimed "We can't let Christmas go by without the Brill family goetta" I want to make goetta and I'll make it on Christmas. The wife said she had a bag of the correct pin oats, but that was all. So off the daughter and I went to our local independent butcher shop to try and get the required meat, realizing he wanted to close soon. Luckily he had the 5 lbs of beef short ribs we requested. When we asked if he had a bone in pork loin roast he said he had one about 7 lbs. I didn't have the heart to tell him we only needed 5 lbs and took the whole thing.

Oh yes, I had not decided on what rub for the beef tenderloin. I mentioned this to the butcher and he said I have a multi-purpose dry beef rub my customers all love.

We left and jetted to Kroger for the onions, celery, carrots, beef broth, and black pepper we needed.

So on Christmas, while I an preparing the beef tenderloin and its sides for cooking the daughter is cooking the goetta meat, followed by the pin oats. Out came the Kitchen Aid with its grinding attachment. The daughter finished the goetta assembly and spooning it into aluminum foil loaf pans for refrigeration.

So we polished off the beef tenderloin on Christmas and our first loaf pan of goetta on the 26th.

[goyguy]

...over 2 weeks since the OP was last heard from...betcha we'll never find out what they ended up doing.