Our Christmas celebration is a series of meals, starting with Christmas eve morning. I will be making a mountain man breakfast in one of my dutch ovens, composed of fried shredded taters, onions, smoked kielbasa sausage, diced Hatch green chiles, eggs and shredded sharp cheddar cheese, with salsa on the side. This will be served with fresh buttermilk biscuits and country sausage gravy.

Lunch will be skipped, mainly because after breakfast no one needs to eat again for at least 6 hours. Dinner will be Venison/Jalapeno/cheddar summer sausage, smoked cheddar, crackers, veggies and dip. Dessert will be hot chocolate with cookies, peppermint bark, and tangerines.

Christmas morning will be an assortment of pastries and fruit, coffee cake in one of my dutch ovens, and of course coffee. Snacks will be out most of the day (remnants of the cheese, sausage, veggies, cookies, dips; whatever hasn't been eaten previously). Christmas dinner will be a 10 lb rib roast cooked medium rare, mashed potatoes, beef/onion/wine gravy, home made buttermilk yeast rolls, baked butternut squash rounds, and lettuce and tomato wedges with roquefort dressing. This year I am having to also grill some sockeye salmon for one of our guests who doesn't eat beef anymore.

Dessert for Christmas night will be Christmas spiced apple cake with bourbon candied pears and bourbon sauce drizzled over the top.

That enough for ya?