The bad roast
If I'm going to blog, I guess I need to be honest and own up to my failures.
I had a good plan, I thought.
I had a roast to cook and wanted to do the crock pot thing low and slow.
However, my dumb premenopausal brain forgot to take the giant frozen meat chunk out of the freezer the night before and it would not fit. ( I have an old crock pot and I typically have to cut the roast).
So my next thought was to thaw it with all the veggies in the roasting pan and later put it in the oven at 300 degrees and cook it for 3 hours. I did this.
You'd think that would be similar but it was not.
The roaster didn't have the top on it so the top part of the roast, potatoes, and carrots were hard and dried out. yuck.
The meat was tasty (thanks to several garlic cloves thrown around the pan) but tough.
And as it turns out, those potatoes i got at the farmers market were purple. And not good for roasts. Wrong kind of cooking method I think.
Honestly I'm not sure what mealy purple potatoes are good for... purple mash? I have more so I need to know these things.
*** RESEARCH DONE HERE ***
Ah okay so the Internet says that these potatoes can be roasted. Here is a recipe I found.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/roasted-peruvian-potatoes-recipe.html
Onward, shall we?
So I then cut up the meat in bite sized chunks and it was good. Then I cooked the potatoes in butter with the carrots onions and garlic. But because they were mealy potatoes, and ...purple, the mash was weird and strange tasting.
Luckily I made butter noodles with parmesan to go with the meat.
Then i dumped the rest of the meat in the crock pot with 2 cups of chicken stock and those carrots and garlic left over.
Not sure what i'm going for here, just looking to get rid of the connective tissue that surely bunched up when I did the roast yesterday. Maybe a stew to be?
*** CHECKS CROCK POT ***
Yep, we have soft succulent chuck roast. And lots of awesome broth for a soup. Maybe this will be beef barley soup! I have barley!
So there you have it folks.
You cant rush a Chuck roast.
Stay tuned for more sage advice (see what i did there? a food pun? No? Okay).
Vicky
I had a good plan, I thought.
I had a roast to cook and wanted to do the crock pot thing low and slow.
However, my dumb premenopausal brain forgot to take the giant frozen meat chunk out of the freezer the night before and it would not fit. ( I have an old crock pot and I typically have to cut the roast).
So my next thought was to thaw it with all the veggies in the roasting pan and later put it in the oven at 300 degrees and cook it for 3 hours. I did this.
You'd think that would be similar but it was not.
The roaster didn't have the top on it so the top part of the roast, potatoes, and carrots were hard and dried out. yuck.
The meat was tasty (thanks to several garlic cloves thrown around the pan) but tough.
And as it turns out, those potatoes i got at the farmers market were purple. And not good for roasts. Wrong kind of cooking method I think.
Honestly I'm not sure what mealy purple potatoes are good for... purple mash? I have more so I need to know these things.
*** RESEARCH DONE HERE ***
Ah okay so the Internet says that these potatoes can be roasted. Here is a recipe I found.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/roasted-peruvian-potatoes-recipe.html
Onward, shall we?
So I then cut up the meat in bite sized chunks and it was good. Then I cooked the potatoes in butter with the carrots onions and garlic. But because they were mealy potatoes, and ...purple, the mash was weird and strange tasting.
Luckily I made butter noodles with parmesan to go with the meat.
Then i dumped the rest of the meat in the crock pot with 2 cups of chicken stock and those carrots and garlic left over.
Not sure what i'm going for here, just looking to get rid of the connective tissue that surely bunched up when I did the roast yesterday. Maybe a stew to be?
*** CHECKS CROCK POT ***
Yep, we have soft succulent chuck roast. And lots of awesome broth for a soup. Maybe this will be beef barley soup! I have barley!
So there you have it folks.
You cant rush a Chuck roast.
Stay tuned for more sage advice (see what i did there? a food pun? No? Okay).
Vicky
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