Hi Spunky!
Sounds like you had a great day with your family. I’m glad you did.
Natalie did the roast and it was so good. So tender. Yes, she had the heat up high and then turned down. The whole tenderloin (about 8 pounds) was done in about 45 minutes. Nice and rare in the middle section, thinner areas medium rare. It was so good.
So, every year I hide about 50 small chocolate eggs for the kids around MY house. It was getting a little boring, so this year I brought the eggs over to Natalie’s secretly, when I went over for dinner. Then I told the kids it was time for the egg hunt and they could head over to my place, but there were no eggs in the bathrooms or closets (to make it sound legit). I told them I worked really hard this year to make the eggs well hidden and much harder to find. So off they ran. Then I pulled out the eggs and told Natalie and Danielle to quickly hide them all over the place. Lol it took about 5 minutes for the kids to come back because they hadn’t found one egg - hahaha it was funny. They were so confused, then they started spotting the eggs and they were running around finding them for about 10 minutes.
It was a fun trick and saved Nanna the time and trouble of hiding all those eggs lol.
I am glad the tenderloin turned out real good. I presume she made up her own spices to put on it?
What a trick to pull on the kids. I bet they really got a kick out of it once they realized what was going on.