Roast!

Ladies, I just did a good wife deed (GWD)!!! I made Joe dinner even though he won't be home till 9:30 - and I did something I've never done before: I cooked a roast! A rib-eye roast! I got it at Costco. 4.5 pounds, $7/pound = one pretty darn risky purchase for someone who hasn't ever done something like this before. But I wanted something really tasty and also something that we can enjoy over the next..well, week. Something I can make sandwiches out of and serve with potatoes.

And oh, my goodness sake, it turned out so good I am a wee bit misty-eyed. I'm probably enjoying it more than Joe will because he's used to high-quality food from his good cook mom. But me? I've been living the single life for almost seven years. No mom to cook my meals. I lived off ground beef till Joe asked for chicken and fish every once in a while.

PICTURE.
















How amazing, right? And oh my goodness the carrots and potatoes were all crusty and savory and the carrots had carmelized. And the roast - well, I just ate three slices with my hands, if that tells you anything. The outside is all crispy and seared and the inside is perfect (I was going for "medium" but I think it ended up "well done", but that's okay. We'll see when we get to the middle.)

I called my husband jubilantly to tell him. He was excited but then asked me to make Yorkshire pudding to go with it (well, suggested and then said it was okay if I didn't). But it's his birthday and I want him to LOVE it! So I'm going to make Yorkshire pudding. The batter is waiting till he's almost home.

And apparently you don't eat Yorkshire pudding without gravy, so I'm going to make gravy too - which I've never done either. At least, not without making gravy from a mix.

So here are the links I'm using:

How to Cook a Beef Rib-Eye Roast

Yorkshire Pudding

How to Make Homemade Beef Gravy From Drippings

Oh and I'm probably a naughty cook but I didn't have a roasting pan so I used a Pyrex 9x13. It worked out fine.

Edit - the Yorkshire pudding, I didn't know this, but it's the same as "popovers" my mom used to make. Never had them with gravy though - SO GOOD!