This year for Christmas, my son and I decided to take a road trip from Atlanta to Chicago. Over the river and through the cornfields to grandmother’s house we went. We decided to make family a focus, and with everybody vaccinated, boostered and healthy, it was worth the 2-day, 12-hour trek. Plus, my 10-year-old baseball nut got to visit the Louisville Slugger baseball museum and hold a Babe Ruth game-used bat!
The family holiday dinner has always been a special event, whether it’s my family or my wife’s family. The centerpiece of every meal is usually a turkey or a ham. This year, Christmas dinner will be a beef roast, with a ham to eat a couple of days later. Meat inevitably is the main course – we just can’t make a salad or a reformulated pile of pea protein an entrée, at least not on a special occasion meal like this one.