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Smoked prime rib
Beef Tips and Gravy
March 2026: After The Equinox
We did clean up in the backyard garden this weekend. Some things got converted into ash & biochar:
I like the way this woodland phlox spreads. It forms little clumps or communities rather than a wall of invasion like our blue salvia:
"We're not buying any more plants this year...":
Our crabapple blossomed for the first time. They smell amazing. I don't expect many but I hope we get a couple of fruit this year just to taste:
We harvested some of our leeks today. You can smell them all over the house. It is glorious:
We knew it was a gamble & our bay tree did die back hard but there is new growth so maybe we can manage to keep it alive year to year with heavy leaf mulching:
We had a cut of beef roast & my queen said, "Do you want to try grilling it?" In deed I would. There are angels still weeping over how good it was:
Do you eat beef?
Yes
No, because I don't like it or prefer other foods
No, because of medical dietary requirements (e.g. allergies)
No, because it is against my religion (e.g. certain animals are sacred)
No, because of ethics-influenced dietary choices (e.g. veganism)
@genuine-hyperbole hath summoned me for mine Receippé™️ and I shall endeavor to make it useable.
First I’ll listen ingredients and then my process. They will not have accurate measurements! You measure that roast with your heart!!!
Ingredients:
2-3 lb roast (can be chuck, mock tender, whatevs you want bby)
5-7 carrots (I prep mine so they’re on a slant bias, just means I cut them ✨Fancý✨)
At least one onion, I put in three
1 lb of potatoes (I just buy the small bite sized ones to make this easy for myself)
Seasonings:
Salt
Pepper
Bay leaves (3)
Garlic (preferably fresh, granulated is fine)
Onion powder
Thyme
Sage
Rosemary
(Ok now stay with me)
Ginger
Turmeric
Mustard (I use both yellow and Dijon)
Worcestershire sauce
Chicken bullion
Red wine
OK I KNOW ITS A LOT HERE WE GO
1. Get your Dutch oven over medium heat and oil it lightly. Olive oil is fine or butter, just not margarine because that stuff is terrible for you. While doing this set your oven to 325.
2. Sear the beef on all sides or as many as you can get.
3. Chop your onions into half moons (you can dice if you want) and mince your garlic, once the beef is done searing you’ll take it out to rest. Toss your onions and garlic in to sauté.
4. Once those are sautéed, add in equal amounts of thyme, sage, and rosemary. This is also the time to add salt and pepper. This step and the next are kind of the “add everything together” steps.
5. I add only a little of ginger and turmeric, I’m talking like 1/8 of a teaspoon. Does it affect the flavor?? I think it does but I could be hallucinating, idk. I also add about two teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce, one teaspoon of each mustard, and a good spoonful of the Better than Bullion chicken. (I actually just eyeball all of these so adjustments may be needed.
6. Add half a bottle of wine to deglaze the bottom of the Dutch, add your bay leaves, and add your beef back to the whole mix. Put into the oven at 325 for like three hours.
7. While that’s in the oven, cut your carrots and wash your potatoes. Once three hours has gone by double check that the meat is falling apart. Add your carrots and potatoes and let that cook in the oven for another hour.
8. I cheat and make a cornstarch slurry for my gravy but basically I spoon out all the stuff into a big metal bowl, make the slurry, add slurry to broth making gravy, add everything else back.
And you’re done!! I hope that was coherent, if anything is confusing or if you have questions, let me know!
Tonight's pot roast plan. (With probably half of that giant rutabaga chunked up. Some of the carrots are looking pretty scabby, but that will hopefully peel right off.)
The fransyska seems to be a pretty popular cut here, though I haven't actually bought one before. Got a pretty good sale deal on this one, so why not. Meat in general has been running relatively pricey enough that I've been falling back more on, like, ground and cheapish chicken legs.
Getting used to British meat cuts was already fun enough, and not at all surprisingly they are even more different here. Though I have been very glad to readily be able to find something that corresponds to chuck again.
That steer on the right looks so reproachful, and no wonder.
Nedan följer information om olika amerikanska styckningsdetaljer och deras svenska motsvarighet.
That appears to be out of the round, and apparently sometimes gets called "beef knuckle" in English even though it's located nowhere near what anyone who is not a butcher would refer to as a knuckle. Where by "knuckle", they apparently mean near the hip joint. (?!) It may correspond to sirloin tip elsewhere, if you're further breaking down the round? Seems to depend on the details of exactly where it's cut from. Idek. I am not a meat expert, just an idiot trying to figure out how to cook new-to-me hunks of the stuff.
So yeah, as I was thinking, a good braise (if under pressure to speed things up) is probably not going to be too wrong. We'll see how it turns out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Creamy bacon potato soup with a sirloin roast.
I caramelized onions with chicken broth, using them with the beef and the base of my soup. Used my homemade bone broth in my potato soup. Took about almost 7 hours because I’m still healing but my goodness was it worth it. Fibromyalgia is kicking my butt with this healing process and the dizzies are not fun. But I feel very accomplished today.
I know wisdom teeth removal is a major surgery, but I’m getting a tad jealous that everyone else can leave home without being worried about fainting, but my crippled butt can’t. It’s been almost a week now and I know it’ll take at least another week before I start feeling kinda normal again. At least I have soup for days.