At Thanksgiving Dad turned to my uncle and said, "I want to make prime rib for Christmas dinner. Any advice?" Uncle said, "Go to a butcher shop and have them season and prep it for you. So all you have to do is cook it and you get ribs left over for later eating!" He got into more detail of what you can do with the ribs, and the food coma set in, so Dad said I was in charge of remembering how to cook Christmas dinner.
December comes. Dad says "So you're cooking Christmas dinner, right?"
"What? All he said was, go to the butcher shop. Ask them to prep everything for you. Cook. Done. Right?"
Uncle and I sent Dad recipes.
Dad: "I think I want to prepare the meat the way it says in this recipe, but cook it the other way. Will that work?"
"No. The second way cooks faster because it's a different cut of meat."
Dad: "......ooooookaaaaaaay." *defeated tone*
Christmas Day- Mom steals the oven and makes her ribs. Dad preps the prime rib:
He doesn't like mustard, so he didn't follow the recipe completely. He substituted with other seasoning I bought from Colorado. Also, lots of garlic.
12pm: "Dad, if people are coming over to eat dinner at 3, shouldn't you be cooking the meat by now?"
Dad: "No, why? It says 2.5 hrs for every 5 lbs. That's 3 hours."
"How many lbs is the prime rib?"
Dad: "8 - 10? IIIIII don't knoooooowwwww."
********We had to send Mom elsewhere in the house, because she had already been stressed throughout the day about this. Luckily, we had the NJ clan (who are EXCELLENT cooks) to help with dessert and side dishes. To be honest, they did most of the work. I just moved stuff around.*********
Timing turned out to be JUUUUUST fine. Our guests got sucked into learning how to play Mah Jong, so we had dinner after 4pm.
Eh? Not too shabby for scary Dad comments, right?
The perfect medium rare.... mmmm. No horseradish. Sorry.
NJ Crew + Cousin + Myself made mushrooms and green beans with sage, mashed potatoes, boiled sweet potatoes, gluten free pumpkin/cornbread, and kale salad.
Mom's ribs!!! They are famous and she'll always try to get you to take some home with you.
Corn bread and kale. (Turns out, there's Asian kale. It does NOT cook the same way non-Asian kale cooks. It was.... bitter).
I made Mar's pumpkin walnut crunch cake:
Alternately, we had Maria's bakery Asian cakes! (Apparently quite a few family members don't like pumpkin. Every day's a school day!)
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