I’ve posted before about how different our Christmas eves are now from our traditional holidays. This year we’re having our Jewish friends over, eating a ton of Italian food I’ve cooked and drinking Don Fulano Reposado. This doesn’t suck.
Merry Christmas! I'm full of beef barbacoa and cookies. I'm excited to see my kid open gifts and having a day to relax tomorrow. I hope you are all safe and well!
Mmmmm… beef barbacoa. I’m really looking forward to smoking a 24 lbs turkey tomorrow. The test bird came out amazing. Should be interesting, as it’s a departure from a traditional Xmas dinner with gravy and mashed potatoes.. I’m just roasting a ton of veggies with the turkey and keeping it simple. I dare someone to complain.
Part of the getting older is having to juggle not only my family and in-laws holiday plans, but now apparently figuring out when our sons’ girlfriends will be here to open gifts vs when they have to be elsewhere, also requiring our sons to go with them. It’s 10:40pm and I’m sitting here, burning on fumes since I’ve been up since 4am, without a clue what’s going on tomorrow. Fuck it, so long as everyone’s happy and I end up in my recliner, I’ll be happy. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
My favorite word to randomly interject into conversation that immediately delineates who knows exactly what you're talking about and who has no idea... Spatchcock.
The first year my family did a spatchcock turkey like 10 years ago, it was like that, so we turned it into a drinking game and my mom got fucked up.
Absolutely. Some wonder what it is, others ask you why you’d do it. Needless to say t’s coming along nicely. Just basted it in some butter.
Since my deep dish pizza was such a hit, I've been tasked with doing them again tonight. However, drunk GTE and sober GTE are two different cooks.