Lets clean the attics Gypsies

I'll be over after work, Lynnie. DH & DD can fend for themselves... I'll bring the wheat bread. Can DH eat pumpernickel?

Lynnie, it has been forever since I fixed a roast. I can almost smell yours!!!

It is hard getting a small enough beef cut for one person. Please help me. How do you do yours? Type of beef cut? Everything in together? Any liquid to start? Oven temp.? How long? Do you cut your veggies?

In a few minutes I am going over to the grocery to get the meat specials for today only. The only meat I have left in my freezer is ground chuck from Sept. 6, 2009. I assume that is ok. Will use that next. I am going to package the meat I get today into individual packages so it will be easier for me to use.

Venice, I can tell you about chuck roast! You can buy a small chuck roast, brown it in a little oil and stick it in the oven at 325° for about 4 hours. Add some onion & water to the pan, a few of whatever spices you like & cover well.

After about 3 hours add some carrots (I like to halve mine), potatoes (I like to quarter mine), whatever you like, and let it cook for the last hour. If you put in veggies that don't take as long as the potatoes & carrots, add them later. Count backwards from the done time.

Old cooking rule ~ long & low for roasts, they come out more tender. I make this every now & then, the meat just falls apart. If you like gravy, you can take the stuff out & make a gravy out of the juices. If you don't eat gravy, just add a little bit of water before you cover it.

An old polish lady taught me that, about the long & low.

Smiley bring 'em along ;) DH can eat anything but white bread. I just whipped up a gravy (which my daughter and I are practically slurping ) so biscuits will be next.

Venice I got a beef round tip roast (supposed to be the more tender of the roasts but you cook 'em right they're all tender) I braised it in olive oil put it on a rack in a pan that was lined with foil. I cut up the potatoes, onions, mushrooms and threw a stalk of celery in there, all on the bottom of the pan. I put the meat on the rack over the cut up veggies. Then i dumped the olive oil from the braising over the veggies. It literally smelled like melting butter while it cooked. I had the whole pan tightly covered with foil. Oh I also put some garlic salt & pepper on the meat while braising it. My mother used to cook roasts like this, and we loved the oven roasted potatoes. You can ask the butcher to cup up your roast into portions. The roasts were buy one get one free, I couldn't pass up such a silly deal. I put one in the freezer.

long & low, that's true, Smiley, I cooked mine at 325 degrees for about 1 3/4 hour (2.7 pound roast). I put all my veggies in at once, though, and didn't add water, used the olive oil instead. the tight foil makes it steam. i also bought horseradish cream, I love it with thin sliced beef.

if you have a crockpot you can use that Venice.

oh I put rosemary on top of mine too

where is JJ I cooked something "normal" for a change ;)

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Lynnie, thanks for your roast directions. I have put your info in my recipe file.

I bet it has been over 30 years since I made a roast. I remember one time when I was in my twenties I forgot to take the meat out of the freezer. I was going to be gone more than 2 hours. So I took that frozen block, salt and peppered it, put it in a large baking dish with a lid (even though one edge stuck up a bit), and put it in the oven on a very low temperature. I think it must have been about 275 degrees. When I got back, that roast was wonderful and for some reason it even browned. The best I ever made!

There ya go Venice!

Lynnie, I love rosemary. I make chicken cordon bleu and use rosemary. I like your way of doing the roast, I don't have a rack that would sit high enough to put anything underneath. Hmmm... may have to go to my favorite store...

lol Smiley I bought that rack ages ago and this is the first time I used it, I haven't cooked a roast in ages either.

I love to do that in the winter. Put it in the oven & fuggetaboutit.

yeah it's definitely a winter meal. Plus it will be good for all kinds of sandwiches now, too, open face roast beef with gravy, cold roast beef with horseradish spread and hot & sweet peppers (drooling over that one) biscuits & gravy....boy I'll need 2 hours at the gym.

As long as you enjoy both, it's all good!

I love horseradish, I want my eyes to water when I eat it. Don't normally like my food to spicy, but the hotter the better with horseradish.

I agree!

Ever have a roast beef on weck sandwich? If not, you would love it. I guess it's regional to the Buffalo area.

I had to look up that sandwich!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_on_weck_sandwich

woast beef on weck? do you wove it? *grin*

ok ok I confess I never heard of it!

I got a "smoky horseradish" sauce wow is it yummy!

JJ I just took the wire shelves down! :)

This message was edited Jan 15, 2010 7:32 PM

Thinly sliced delectable roast beef piled high on a 'kimmelweck' roll. A kimmelweck roll is a hard roll with caraway seeds and coarse salt on the top, baked in.

Some places put too much salt on the weck rolls, I scrape it off. Then you take the top of the roll and dip it in au jus and slap some horseradish on it and eat it.

The au jus drips down to your elbows if it's made right.



edit: I hadn't looked at Venice's link until after I posted. HAH! HAH! just as described...

This message was edited Jan 15, 2010 7:59 PM

oh yum! except that dripping part, I don't like that. *grin*

or one of those breads with cheese & peppers baked into it, with roast beef and some of that smoky horseradish dressing, mmmm!

That sounds good. I was just trying to say that the au jus is very important. The wiki link picture looks like it could use another dip!

You would love it, I'm sure.

for goodness sake, my mouth is watering! I'm a pig.

Lynnie you cook something normal for a change and then go and do wierd things with it...go figure

Fell asleep after supper and just woke up.
Granpa trying to convince GS to let him put the drops in his eyes. Granpa is losing...

need to get him to bed.
Catch you in the morning

morning everybody! coffee's on!

y'all are a bunch of sleepyheads today!

I'm here, I'm up!

Smiley go get Moon out of the attic...I think she got lost up there.

I think you're right Lynnie. Must have been one heck of an attic!

Good morning Smiley,Lynnie and everyone. Moon,are ya lost in the attic? We'll send out a rescue unit. Send up a flare so we can tell what direction your in. JJ's hope little GS is doing better today. I know your like me when it comes to little ones being sick....cant stand to see them like that. I'm still feeling very crappy,but not as crappy though. There are levels of crappy.....Grin. I think medicine is starting to help. Just wanted to say hello to all and miss you guys.

Hope you feel better soon Dixie. Don't forget the chicken soup!

Thanks Smiley......I'm trying to. Hope you have a great day. Try to catch up with all later.

hope you feel better Dixie!

Morning,

Feel better dixie.
GS starting to feel better, at least he could open his eyes tiday. :)

Got donuts and creme horns over here. Coffee too.

we're coming JJ! save us some! I call the chocolate one!

No chocolate ones.
Sorry
Cutting back so only bought glazed donuts and creme horns. Thought you were working out to hard, so skipped the gooey ones.

Did I hear something bout cream horns and coffee?? Ummmm I'll take two JJ. Been busy with this and that and still busy, just wanted to pop in and say Hi. Glad Dillon is doing better JJ, and Dixie if that nose gets any reder or bigger we will have to use you as a night light lol, get well girl, we are going to the zoo for Girls Day Out this week. How bout Wednesday at 7. Anyone that doesn't like the fun, can just turn down the volume and go watch a movie, cause we are gonna have funnnnn! Hope to see you all there, Tony the Tiger will be waiting on us. CYa!

Good morning every-bod-eee. Been playing with sesame street stuff in the attic....so peaceful up there....if i pulled up the ladder they couldn't bother me at all....DH and GS both in a funky mood....think it has something to do with cleaning....grin.

Hope everyone is up to snuff and Dixie is on the mend. Is Flowers sick too? I did not see anything from her. Venice, so glad you are better.

Guess I better find us a new Jabberspot....back in a bit.

talk about ESP Moon, we must have been typing at the same time lol. Love Sesame Street, Don't throw out Big Bird I Love Him! Cya Wednesday!

Got that connection, Buddy. Glad you are okay. Wednesday??? Take care Buddy.

News update...Imazadi's laundry room caught fire in the middle of the nightWednesday/Thursday. She and daughter escaped without injury, damage limited to laundry area/her bedroom wall...power off for safety measures. Appears to have taken out her closet also. Keep her in your thoughts and prayers.



On that note....a new thread.....


http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1069671/

This message was edited Jan 16, 2010 11:10 AM

Imazadi, I am so sorry about your house. Thankfully you and your daughter escaped unharmed. I can't imagine how horrible that must be to experience a fire, to have the all that fire and smoke damage to your house and clothes, to take care of all the repair work, and also to go through all the emotional stress of the fire and afterwards. My thoughts will be with you as you manage to get through all the affects of this fire. Peace be with you.