In Which Kit Makes a Roast
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writerkitThe actual purpose of a meat share is to introduce me to strange cuts of meat I have never experienced before.
In this particular instance, an "eye round roast." Now, I have never made any roast outside of a crock pot (and only a couple there), but I had trouble finding a good crock pot recipe for it and in any case I wanted it to retain enough structural integrity that I could easily slice it into sandwich meat. That meant making it in the oven. (The beef tongue, however, will be made in a crock pot. I am not quite brave enough to attempt something that finicky in an oven.)
I found a very simple, straightforward recipe online and then promptly substituted almost half the spice mix because of what we were out of. (And thyme and onion powder have now been added to the grocery list.) It was surprisingly easy-- rub olive oil on roast, rub spices on roast, stick in oven, remember to turn oven temp down after fifteen minutes. And then make the ritual obeisance to the smoke gods by standing under the smoke alarm waving a magazine until the oven temp has been turned down. (I didn't burn anything; our smoke alarm is just Like That-- but since I don't do a lot of roasts, I'm used to "frying things sets it off but using the oven is safe" and so didn't put the box fan in the window... and this turns out not to be the case if you're doing high-temp meat.)
It's maybe a little well done, but I think it came out pretty well. I am going to slice it up and freeze some of it as sandwich meat-- I want sandwich meat, and one of my rules for myself with the meat share was that if I was doing this that was all the meat I cooked; there would be no meat in the weekly grocery run. Since they don't have deli as an add-on, this means I have to get creative. And some of it is dinner tonight with mashed sweet potatoes.
My primary food source is still boxed processed things, but this is at least forcing me to periodically eat food that didn't come out of a box. And it tastes good.
In this particular instance, an "eye round roast." Now, I have never made any roast outside of a crock pot (and only a couple there), but I had trouble finding a good crock pot recipe for it and in any case I wanted it to retain enough structural integrity that I could easily slice it into sandwich meat. That meant making it in the oven. (The beef tongue, however, will be made in a crock pot. I am not quite brave enough to attempt something that finicky in an oven.)
I found a very simple, straightforward recipe online and then promptly substituted almost half the spice mix because of what we were out of. (And thyme and onion powder have now been added to the grocery list.) It was surprisingly easy-- rub olive oil on roast, rub spices on roast, stick in oven, remember to turn oven temp down after fifteen minutes. And then make the ritual obeisance to the smoke gods by standing under the smoke alarm waving a magazine until the oven temp has been turned down. (I didn't burn anything; our smoke alarm is just Like That-- but since I don't do a lot of roasts, I'm used to "frying things sets it off but using the oven is safe" and so didn't put the box fan in the window... and this turns out not to be the case if you're doing high-temp meat.)
It's maybe a little well done, but I think it came out pretty well. I am going to slice it up and freeze some of it as sandwich meat-- I want sandwich meat, and one of my rules for myself with the meat share was that if I was doing this that was all the meat I cooked; there would be no meat in the weekly grocery run. Since they don't have deli as an add-on, this means I have to get creative. And some of it is dinner tonight with mashed sweet potatoes.
My primary food source is still boxed processed things, but this is at least forcing me to periodically eat food that didn't come out of a box. And it tastes good.
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Date: 2021-06-13 03:06 am (UTC)