Ray Barboni
Footballguy
Hey dudes and dudettes,
it’s been a minute since we talked - but I swear there was a Christmas dinner thread here? Maybe it was a “Christmas Roast” thread?
if any of ya’ll can shoot me in the right direction - that would be appreciated.
if there is no such dedicated thread? Then I sorta just wanna pick your brains on my Christmas Eve dinner plan.
First time hosting Christmas Eve. My anticipated menu:
6lb beef tenderloin roast (smoked salt, green and red peppercorn rubbed) - cooked medium rare.
sweet Italian sausage and ricotta pasta (baked)
fried chicken Alfredo pasta (baked)
garlic butter mashed potatoes (fresh but doing it in the crock-pot)
Beef gravy (for drizzle topping the tenderloin and/or mash)
horseradish cream sauce (also just for fun time with the tenderloin)
other sides which I’m NOT cooking but requesting guests to bring:
greens ( whatever. Can be a salad. Can be asparagus, green bean cass, or whatever)
I guess all I’m really asking about is …. Is it too Much to have 2 pasta dishes? The sweet sausage red pasta, AND the fried, Alfredo chicken?
Im of the sort that believes you can’t have enough good pasta - plus we have the perfect blend of red and white, pork, chicken and beef.
also. I suppose you can just tell me I’m overthinking ALL of this lol.
sorry. First time hosting the family - I just want to really overdo it with plenty of food
it’s been a minute since we talked - but I swear there was a Christmas dinner thread here? Maybe it was a “Christmas Roast” thread?
if any of ya’ll can shoot me in the right direction - that would be appreciated.
if there is no such dedicated thread? Then I sorta just wanna pick your brains on my Christmas Eve dinner plan.
First time hosting Christmas Eve. My anticipated menu:
6lb beef tenderloin roast (smoked salt, green and red peppercorn rubbed) - cooked medium rare.
sweet Italian sausage and ricotta pasta (baked)
fried chicken Alfredo pasta (baked)
garlic butter mashed potatoes (fresh but doing it in the crock-pot)
Beef gravy (for drizzle topping the tenderloin and/or mash)
horseradish cream sauce (also just for fun time with the tenderloin)
other sides which I’m NOT cooking but requesting guests to bring:
greens ( whatever. Can be a salad. Can be asparagus, green bean cass, or whatever)
I guess all I’m really asking about is …. Is it too Much to have 2 pasta dishes? The sweet sausage red pasta, AND the fried, Alfredo chicken?
Im of the sort that believes you can’t have enough good pasta - plus we have the perfect blend of red and white, pork, chicken and beef.
also. I suppose you can just tell me I’m overthinking ALL of this lol.
sorry. First time hosting the family - I just want to really overdo it with plenty of food
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... that was it? I figured I was joking with that thing.. a festivus miracle!
