Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas everyone!

[Innkeeper]

Hi all, we just got back from our daughter's up in Haverhill, NH. On Christmas Eve we had all but she and family here (a total of eleven with four wine drinkers. We had baked ham, a variation on the Mediterranean veggies, and potato break it was washed down with two bottles of Salmon Run Pinot Noir.

Yesterday, we and one other family went up to Haverhill. Bev brought along a large tenderloin that she precooked the night before. She also brought a stuffing she made from onions, fennel bulb, and herbs and spices. These were sauteed and then put in the food processor. Up there she cooked the tenderloin a little more and then covered it with the stuffing and wrapped it with puff pastry for a variation on Beef Wellington, and baked it again. It was to die for. I made a killer Bearnaise sauce to go with it. Daughter serve a variety of veggies. Five of us killed two bottles of Knapp Merlot with it.

It is good to be home and able to rest up a little.