Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you had a happy holiday and Santa was good to you and your families! My family decided to do something different from turkey this Christmas and make a standing rib roast instead. Serving red meat versus poultry required a total overhaul of our menu from Thanksgiving. Listed below are the dishes that we made today for Christmas dinner. Over the course of the next two weeks, I will post each of these recipes.
– Hot Toddies
– Christmas Crostini
– Dad’s Cream of Chestnut Soup
– Mom’s Standing Rib Roast
– Asparagus Wrapped in Bacon
– Potato & Celery Root Mash
– Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Creme Anglaise
To round out our meal, we served Sister Shubert’s Wheat Dinner Yeast Rolls and a bottle of Illumination Sauvignon Blanc from Quintessa Winery (see Napa Travelogue post for more info on CA wineries!). Red wine probably would have gone better with this meal, but my mom generally only drinks white and I had just given my parents a case of this wine for Christmas so we had to try it!
Sweet Southern Comfort 
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