Honestly, I haven’t really been cooking meals for myself in the past while. Very frequently I’ve come home just feeling exhausted and not hungry. And when I’ve been hungry I’ve just been opting for quick out-of-the-box stuff. Yeah, kind of embarrassing, eh? One of my coping mechanisms has been to just eat enough while I’m at work such that there’s no need to eat any more by the time I get home, except for, perhaps, a small snack. Anyway, this afternoon I decided that I needed to break the cycle. I wanted to make an effort and cook a proper dinner this evening.
I knew that I had a prime rib roast in the freezer that I could defrost pretty quickly. I usually end up doing a pot roast, but this time I wanted to make it an oven roast. And, of course, I knew that a good pairing for the roast would be a Yorkshire pudding. I started working out my plan of attack at work. The cooking method for the roast looked simple enough. The recipe for the Yorkshire pudding was dead easy as well–I just dumped it all into a blender and let it do its thing. So, after defrosting the roast, I put a spice rub onto the fatty part of the meat and stood it up vertically. I put the roast in a 450°F oven for 15 minutes to sear the meat. After that I turned it down to 350°F and cooked it for the remainder of the time. After I took out the meat, I poured the batter into the pan with all of the meat drippings. I stuck it back into a 400°F oven for about half an hour. When all was said and done everything looked absolutely awesome. I’m quite proud of the results. It was all so tasty. It shows me that I still know what I’m doing in the kitchen.
Of course, I took pictures of everything that I made. Naturally! Here:
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2 comments
Richard says:
Fri. March 26, 2010 at 10:40 pm (UTC -5 )
Dude that looks so good, specially the Yorkshire pudding.
Jay says:
Fri. March 26, 2010 at 11:08 pm (UTC -5 )
I really haven’t been cooking enough as of late. Problem is it requires time and significant planning just to be able to fit the damn calories in by day end. However, when I feel inspired, something like this happens.