What's for dinner? # 2

[briggsy's girl]

Oh yummo has your DH been shopping at Tasman!!!!

How do you cook this anyway?

nope - he just went into the local butcher this morning, told him what we wanted - and he went and cut it fresh from the beast hanging in the cool room! gotta love that he knows us and does stuff like this for us!

how to cook? we just make the meat a little damp, rub it fairly generously with the onion and garlic spice blend (it's one we got at Christmas in a hamper thing, but we often do just garlic granules and onion flakes on beef) - put the roast on a tray thing in the pan (so it's not sitting in the pan direct), add a glass of water (ish) to the pan - then whack it in the oven on low for a few hours.

the outer becomes nice and crispy from the coating we put on, the inner nice and moist... given this one is bigger than we normally get, we'll probably split it along the bones when it's almost done just to make sure it cooks up properly in the middle (i can't do undercooked meat!).

as the roast cooks, excess spices drop into the tray with the drippings and make the gravy delish! we make sure whenever we turn it we make sure there is atleast half to a cm of water in the tray as it helps keep everything moist and delish!

[feeb]

ohh yum yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How much does it weight and how long to cook for? Yum i want to cook 1 next week!

[briggsy's girl]

we usually get one about 1-1.5kg and cook it on very low for about 2 -3 hours. DH and I both like well cooked meat (no pink in site!) but still moist so we really do work on guess work! we've put todays on about 10 minutes ago, and will check in about an hour, flip, then about an hour after that - at that point, we'll check for red/pink liquid at the thickest piece of meat.

if you're concerned about getting it cooked right in a shorter time, you can split the roast between the bones of the ribs - and seperate a bit as there is then more surface area to cook (hope that makes sense!) - todays is bigger than normal (more meaty than normally get at Tasman - the butcher loves us lol) so we'll cook it longer than normal. i just asked DH how much it weighed and got "i dunno - i just told webby i wanted a rib eye roast!" - good on ya hunny! from what i could see it would be between 1.5 and 2kg...

[young_mumma87]

Im cooking Steak with corn carrot and brocoli with alfreado pasta and topping it off with pepper gravy for tea with my twin sisters that im looking after and DS

Whats everyone else having this fine mothers day!!! damn that i have to cook!!! spose thats what happpens when your a single mummy!!!

[Patooties]

The kids have had left over tuna mornay, and i'm thinking of having a Samboy Tomato Chip sanga. yummo!!

[widdly]

lol at the chip sanga!

I just grabbed a Quiche Lorraine from the supermarket and DH is cooking up a packet of alfredo pasta to have with it

[young_mumma87]

must be the night for Alfreado pasta!!! tea was beasutiful by the way!!! YUMMI!!

[Jellyfish]

Beef stirfry! Just waiting for my DP to get back from dropping his Mum at the airport so he can cook it up for me

[mrsmac]

I got chinese takeaway!! Then I had a mild tanty about having to clear the table LOL

[~clover~]

DH went fishing & cooked his catch for dinner
So we had fish & chips.

[Erin_25]

Roast chook cooked by DH with baked spuds & some steamed vegies.....yum!!! Apple crumble about to go in the oven YAY for me!

[krysalyss]

We had potato mash with tomato pasta. Yummy. And DH cooked (for once....nah just kidding he always cooks. We try to avoid the food poisoning associated with my cooking lol)

[sazzafrazz]

DH cooked pizza and chips from the takeaway shop

[Mother Goose]

We had Chicken Stir Fry last night (made by DH! )

Tonight we're having savoury mince... trying to decide if I'll do mash spud with it or wrap it in tortillia's so DD will eat more of it

[1MOREPLZ]

last night we had satay beef and fried rice yummo!!!
tonight we are having rissoles and pasta bake

[Glamourcide]

Lol DH made his one and only concession for Mother's Day last night and let me order pizza... and so he should, after the crapola day I had...

Tonight, I'm thinking chicken Kievs and vegies (mash taties and pumpkin, carrots, peas, corn and broccoli). I just hate the mess associated with mashed vegies lol, if I get my bum into gear early enough I might roast them instead. Yum

[briggsy's girl]

We had Chicken Stir Fry last night (made by DH! )

Tonight we're having savoury mince... trying to decide if I'll do mash spud with it or wrap it in tortillia's so DD will eat more of it

apart from the tortillas, i'm gonna hve to ask if you're living here - we had curried chook stirfry with rice last night, and having savoury mince tonight!

[Mak]

Too much afternoon tea yesterday....

Roast lamb and vege tonight (potato, sweet potato, broccoli and cauliflower) - looking forward to it.....