Film Dining

  This year's Christmas movie was National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. It didn't take me long to figure out that I wanted to create their iconic Christmas dinner. The trick now was to do it justice. In the film, the turkey is overcooked and dry. As an homage to that, I thought it would be fun to make intentionally dry turky or more specifically, turkey jerky. For dessert, I recreated Aunt Bethany's jello with cat food. For drinks, I had eggnog, which is featured heavily in the film, and some other holiday themed drinks. We also had a variety of sides which we kept pretty traditional but I added my own flair to. Griswold's Turkey Jerky For this recipe, you need to start with some thinly sliced, unprocessed turkey breast. I was nervous about my ability to cut small slices without a meat slicer, but fortunately my grocery store had some sliced turkey cutlets, so I used that. They were thicker than jerky is normally sliced, but they were better slices than what I woul...