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Christmas Day
Dec. 25th, 2021 10:14 pmChristmas Day was a rousing, overfed success at our home.
Everyone got moving late, which was fine by us. Gretchen went out to get drinks while I showered. This took longer than anticipated, because apparently various McDonald's that were supposed to be open had a staffing shortage, which meant that coffee and hot chocolate were available at Dunkin' Donuts, but all attempts to locate diet cola were a failure. I would fix the last later on a circuitous trip where I also bought a Powerball ticket, because, well, $400 million.
But anyway, Gretchen came back, we opened a variety of delightful presents, finishing up with new iPads for each child, which meant that K no longer needs to use my ancient hand-me-down, while J has her first iPad of her own. They were suitably surprised. :)
Gretchen's knees were bothering her this morning, so I was delegated to make breakfast (which we finally finished around 1:30 PM), setting up bacon, sausage, pancakes, and eggs in sequence so that things came out right in the end. This took us right to the time when we needed to be getting the rib roast into the oven, which meant first tracking down a likely recipe. We settled on a simple one, rubbing the roast with salt and pepper, searing at 500 degrees for 15 minutes, and then reducing the temperature to 350 degrees and cooking until the meat thermometer read 118 degrees. The roast was then removed from the oven and allowed to stand for a bit more than 20 minutes while Gretchen and K finished up the rest of the meal. The "standing" part of this worked really well; this was one of the better rib roasts we've had in a while.
We staggered off in a food coma that lasted a few hours until it was time to try the mutant Key Lime pie from yesterday. It came out pretty well, all things considered. The only thing odd about it was that the crust was a bit more chewy than usual. Given the amount of butter in it, this doesn't surprise me.
Tomorrow, we will clean things up and start dispatching various items to where they belong.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
Everyone got moving late, which was fine by us. Gretchen went out to get drinks while I showered. This took longer than anticipated, because apparently various McDonald's that were supposed to be open had a staffing shortage, which meant that coffee and hot chocolate were available at Dunkin' Donuts, but all attempts to locate diet cola were a failure. I would fix the last later on a circuitous trip where I also bought a Powerball ticket, because, well, $400 million.
But anyway, Gretchen came back, we opened a variety of delightful presents, finishing up with new iPads for each child, which meant that K no longer needs to use my ancient hand-me-down, while J has her first iPad of her own. They were suitably surprised. :)
Gretchen's knees were bothering her this morning, so I was delegated to make breakfast (which we finally finished around 1:30 PM), setting up bacon, sausage, pancakes, and eggs in sequence so that things came out right in the end. This took us right to the time when we needed to be getting the rib roast into the oven, which meant first tracking down a likely recipe. We settled on a simple one, rubbing the roast with salt and pepper, searing at 500 degrees for 15 minutes, and then reducing the temperature to 350 degrees and cooking until the meat thermometer read 118 degrees. The roast was then removed from the oven and allowed to stand for a bit more than 20 minutes while Gretchen and K finished up the rest of the meal. The "standing" part of this worked really well; this was one of the better rib roasts we've had in a while.
We staggered off in a food coma that lasted a few hours until it was time to try the mutant Key Lime pie from yesterday. It came out pretty well, all things considered. The only thing odd about it was that the crust was a bit more chewy than usual. Given the amount of butter in it, this doesn't surprise me.
Tomorrow, we will clean things up and start dispatching various items to where they belong.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!