Christmas 2019

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas with family and friends. Here at our house we had family, my wife, two sons and myself. Also my oldest son, Sean, brought his girlfriend and one of his room mates. It was their first time to have Christmas dinner with us. His room mate had been at a few of our BBQ's though.


It was rather unusually warm day, highs in the 60's. So we all sat outside, had beers, while my bronco smoker did it's thing with a 6.5 pound rib-eye roast.This took about 3.5 hours at around 230-250 degrees. Cooked until it was 130 internal, then wrapped it in foil and then wrapped in towels placed in a cooler for 30 minutes. We started cooking about 3:15 in the afternoon and finished almost 7pm. Then we started on the sides.

I finally tried my hand at twice baked potatoes. One of the YouTube channels I follow featured them and I just had to make them. Unfortunately, we could not get some of the ingredients he called for, but was able to procure another recipe that did just as well. the only change made in it was I added half and half to make it more creamy. They were a hit as well.

After the roast had rested, we sliced it up and it was perfect!
Nice juicy redness, and it did not bleed everywhere! Cut up enough slices for everyone and all that was left was the ends. You really don't want the ends as it is covered with salt and seasoning.


 








My wife was quite happy for the table my youngest son got us for such events. We put everything on it and allowed us to have a serving line.
Put it all together we ended with this. Nice glass of wine, rib-eye roast, twice baked potato and green bean casserole.  everyone was quite pleased.