New recipes being used for my Christmas parties

This is the year of living dangerously. Kids requested beef stroganoff (I seriously have no idea why) so I found a recipe that looked good. Husbands family is doing Italian (lasagna and spaghetti) and I found an Italian roast recipe that was interesting. Also found an eggnog pie recipe for my moms I have never made before. It will either go really well or horribly wrong. Anyone else taking a chance without a test run?

*made a random recipe 20 years ago from a magazine that I just happened to have the ingredients for and it has lived in infamy since so a flop hopefully will not ruin that streak