re: #105 calochortus
It has begun.
I’ve done (I hope) all the grocery shopping for tomorrow evening’s dinner and I’ve made the filling for the yule log (it needs to chill.) I think I have the complete timed list of when everything happens in the kitchen such that I get to sit around for at least half an hour or so with friends and family to hear the latest news before I disappear into the kitchen to get dinner together and onto the table.Tomorrow we get to find out if we really can fit 14 people around the dining room table. Well, I know we can do it, but will it be comfortable?
And will it have been a good idea to brown the beef tenderloin in the oven by applying a small amount of baking soda to lower the pH so it browns without searing? America’s Test Kitchen recommends it, and I can’t resist taking a gamble on it. ;)Despite it all, I do love Christmas Eve dinner.
We don’t do Xmas Eve dinner as She Who Must Be Obeyed does the harp thing that night. She used to 3 services on average night, but the ‘Rona has knocked it down to 1, an 8-o’clock mass.
So, tamales and salsa tomorrow night and a scratch-made cassoulet d’agneau (nom nom nom) on Xmas Day.