Best Roast Beef

Jamie Oliver

1 (5 1/2-pound) fore-rib, wing-rib or sirloin of beef, French trimmed
(2.5 kilograms)
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Olive oil
3 red onions, halved
2 bulbs garlic, plus 4 cloves garlic, peeled
7 pounds (3 kilograms) roasting potatoes, peeled
3 rosemary sprigs
2 thumb-sized pieces ginger, peeled and diced
1/2 bottle robust red wine

Yorkshire pudding, recipe follows
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C), and heat a large
thick-bottomed roasting tray on the stovetop.
Rub the beef generously with salt, then add a little olive oil to the
tray and lightly color the meat for a couple of minutes on all sides.
Lay the onions and bulbs of garlic in the tray with the beef on top of
them, then cook in the pre-heated oven for a total of 1 1/2 hours.
While the beef is roasting, parboil your potatoes in salted boiling
water for around 10 minutes and drain in a colander. Toss about to chuff
them up, this will make them really crispy.
After 30 minutes, take the tray out and toss in your potatoes and
rosemary. With a garlic press or grater, squeeze or grate the cloves of
garlic and ginger over everything in the tray.
Shake the tray and whack it back in the oven for the final hour. Remove
the potatoes to a dish to keep warm, place the beef on a plate, covered
with foil, to rest, and get your greens and Yorkshire puddings on.
Remove most of the fat from your roasting tray and you should be left
with caramelized onions and sticky beef goodness.
Add 1 teaspoon of flour to the tray and mash everything together. Heat
the tray on the stovetop and when hot, add the red wine. Simmer for 5 to
10 minutes, stirring every couple of minutes, until your gravy is really
tasty and coats back of a spoon. Add any juice from the beef and feel
free to add some water or stock to thin the gravy if you like.
Pour through a coarse sieve and push it through with a spoon, pushing it
through with a spoon, and serve in a warmed gravy jug. Serve with
Yorkshire puddings.

Huge Yorkshire Puddings:
1/2 pint (285 millilitres) milk
4 ounces (115 grams) all-purpose flour
Pinch salt
3 eggs
Vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Mix the batter ingredients together. Let rest for 10 minutes
Preheat a Yorkshire pudding tray or muffin tin with 1/2-inch (1
centimetre) of oil in each section. After the 10 minutes divide the
batter into the tray. Cook for around 15 to 20 minutes until crisp and
puffy, don't open the oven door before then or they won't rise.
Yield: 8 to 10 servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Easy


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vegetables
(carrots, potatoes, turnips, cauliflower, cabbage...)
Bell pepper
onions
garlic
ginger
salt pepper, etc.
Olive oil
butter

Brown the meat and some chopped onions, peppers, and garilic in olive oil,
place in baking dish, layer with vegetables seasoning and butter.
Bake at 325° for 30 - 45 minutes.
Serve with hot dinner rolls, fruit salad and sparkling water.



Bébé Buffet 1

Show off with whole roasted children replete with apples in mouths -
and babies? heads stuffed with wild rice. Or keep it simple with a
hearty main course such as stew, lasagna, or meat loaf.

Some suggestions

Pre-mie pot pies, beef stew, leg of lamb, stuffed chicken, roast pork spiral ham,
Cranberry pineapple salad, sweet potatoes in butter, vegetable platter, tossed salad with tomato and avocado, parsley new potatoes, spinich cucumber salad, fruit salad
Bran muffins, dinner rolls, soft breadsticks, rice pilaf, croissants
Apple cake with rum sauce, frosted banana nut bread sherbet, home made brownies
Iced tea, water, beer, bloody marys, lemonade, coffee

The guests select food, beverages, silverware... everything from the buffet table.
They move to wherever they are comfortable, and sit with whoever they choose.
Provide trays so your guests will not spill everything all over your house from
carrying too much, nor will they have to make 10 trips back and fourth from the
service stations.



Roast Leg of Amputee

By all means, substitute lamb or a good beef roast if the haunch
it is in any way diseased. But sometimes surgeons make mistakes,
and if a healthy young limb is at hand, then don?t hesitate to cook
it to perfection!

1 high quality limb, rack, or roast
Potatoes, c