The crème de la crème of Holiday meals is the grass fed, whole beef tenderloin. Your guests will be speechless when you serve up this delectable dish. The whole tenderloin becomes filet mignon when it is sliced up, and is as tender as any cut of beef.

When you cook it according to the recipe below, it's easy and your guests will comment on how good it was for months and years later.

Cooking Instructions:

To cook whole tenderloins, we simply rub the meat with olive oil, and rub in salt and pepper to taste.

Sear all sides quickly and briefly on a medium -- hot grill. We usually grill the tenderloin on three sides, creating a nice, dark, outer crust. Do not sear any longer than is necessary to produce a dark, crispy crust.

Place seared roast on wire rack in open roasting pan and into a 425oF oven. After 15 minutes in the oven, check the temperature of the center core of the meat with a meat thermometer, continuing to check every so often until the core reaches 135oF.

When the center core of the tenderloin reaches 135oF remove roasting pan from oven and place on cooling rack. This will yield a rare to medium rare center with more done-ness towards the outsides.

Medium rare occurs at 140oF, but the roast continues to cook after it is removed from the oven, so we take it out when the core reaches 135oF. If you like it very rare, then consider taking the roast out a few degrees before it reaches 135oF.

Let set for approximately 5 minutes and then cut into ¾' slices. Serve with rosemary-oven-roasted potatoes, steamed or baked acorn squash, green salad, cranberries, yams, or any other of your favorite holiday side dishes. *Due to limited availability (there are only two tenderloins on a beef steer), only members of Grass Fed and Healthy will be able to purchase our Diamond F Brand 100% grass fed and finished beef whole tenderloins.

No matter what country you live in, or what culture you are a part of, chances are you will be celebrating and giving gifts in the upcoming months. We wish all of our subscribers a joyous Holiday season.

A fun and meaningful way to do gift-giving is to get the family to agree to the guideline of giving only gifts that were grown or manufactured in your own country. It's always good to keep the money flowing at home, and it provides an opportunity to get in touch with food producers from your country, state, and home area who offer fine foods, and other Holiday gift products.

Some people take it even a step further and only give gifts from their state or region, but that takes a lot of dedication. You could even make a game out of how many miles each gift traveled to reach its destination underneath a Christmas tree, or in a loved one's hands, and the person who racks up the most mileage on gifts has to buy the; fill in the blank.

Beware however, teenage girls who want their Holiday gifts in the form of clothing from the mall or modern catalogs don't like this guideline one bit, and will rebel. It's probably easiest to follow the guideline if there are no teenagers to exchange with, or if there are, exempt some of their gifts from the guideline. You won't find many popular jeans that are made in the U.S. or Canada. But it will do them a world of good if they have to give their loved ones gifts that are from your home country.

If you don't want to give food as gifts, then check out local, regional, and national artists, photographers, craftsmen, authors, musicians, toy-makers, textile and clothing manufactures, and the list goes on and on (though it's very difficult to find textiles made in the US, there are a few). I'll bet your state has many notable and high quality products available for thoughtful gift giving.

It's easy to find great things that were made in the USA. An Eagles album (CD) fits in the guideline of buying from your home country if you are a U.S. resident. (OK, I know the jewel case, album liner, and the CD are probably fabricated somewhere else, but cut me some slack, it's still an American band).

You don't want to be a fanatic! If a local vendor has some great hand or machine embroidered creations that you think are beautiful, support her and don't worry about the fact that her base fabric was probably manufactured in China.

No matter what country you live in, or what culture you are a part of, chances are you will be celebrating and giving gifts in the upcoming months. We wish all of our subscribers a joyous Holiday season.

A fun and meaningful way to do gift-giving is to get the family to agree to the guideline of giving only gifts that were grown or manufactured in your own country. It's always good to keep the money flowing at home, and it provides an opportunity to get in touch with food producers from your country, state, and home area who offer fine foods, and other Holiday gift products.

Some people take it even a step further and only give gifts from their state or region, but that takes a lot of dedication. You could even make a game out of how many miles each gift traveled to reach its destination underneath a Christmas tree, or in a loved one's hands, and the person who racks up the most mileage on gifts has to buy the fill in the blank.

Beware however, teenage girls who want their Holiday gifts in the form of clothing from the mall or modern catalogs don't like this guideline one bit, and will rebel. It's probably easiest to follow it if there are no teenagers to exchange with, or if there are, exempt some of their gifts from the guideline. You won't find many popular jeans that are made in the U.S. or Canada. But it will do them a world of good if they have to give their loved ones gifts that are from your home country.

If you don't want to give food as gifts, then check out local, regional, and national artists, photographers, craftsmen, authors, musicians, toy-makers, textile and clothing manufactures, and the list goes on and on (though it's very difficult to find textiles made in the US, there are a few). I'll bet your state has many notable and high quality products available for thoughtful gift giving.

It's easy to find great things that were made in the USA. An Eagles album (CD) fits in the guideline of buying from your home country if you are a U.S. resident, (OK, I know the jewel case, album liner, and the CD are probably fabricated somewhere else, but cut me some slack, it's still an American band).

You don't want to be a fanatic! If a local vendor has some great hand or machine embroidered creations that you think are beautiful, support her and don't worry about the fact that her base fabric was probably manufactured in China.