Wine Beef Marinade

Soooo, since I have a new spice rack I want to try making a better marinade!

Sauteed in olive oil:
Marjoram
Sliced Onion
Coriander
Rosemary Powder
Bay Leaves (rubbed)
Garlic (fresh)
Thyme
Lemon juice
Sugar

Then after it was all smelling delicious and the onions and garlic were cooked... added some red wine. Let simmer for a bit...


I put it with my Blade roast, gonna marinade it all night. MMM.

First time curry!!

So I had a ton of veggies, and just bought a roast but it was too late at night to roast it. I decided I was feeling like some curry. But... I have NO FLIPPING CLUE how to make it!

I checked the internet for a simple recipe, and yay! it was easy!

2c Milk (I used goat, but coconut or other milk is fine)
half a sliced onion
s&p to taste
Olive oil
Zucchini
Mushrooms
Tomato
Red Pepper
Tofu (firm, in slices)
Cooked rice
1.5 tbsp Curry (Madhran Curry powder)
0.5 tbsp sugar

So I sautee the onion and curry powder in olive oil, then when they are getting cooked I add the 2c of milk, and simmer for 10mins stirring.

Sautee the veggies and tofu in oil and water, then add half the curry sauce and keep cooking until veggies are ready.
Pour over the rice with extra sauce if needed. MMMMMMmmm

It was DELICIOUS. Now I need to know where to alter this recipe... or what other curry dishes to make.

Marinades and mess ups

So I've got this schwack of ribs (beef) that I want to make right?
So I head out... buy a ton of veggies to marinate and put on skewers..
(zucchini, cherry tomatoes, onion, mushrooms, red and yellow peppers)
I also bought some fresh red chilis.

I slice up some red chilis, some garlic, put some lemon in the pan... then put paprika, garlic powder, pepper, salt, onion or garlic salt, tumeric... and mustard powder.
IT SMELLED DISGUSTING. OMG TOSS IT OUT.
I have discovered I hate mustard.
I mean I like mustard on hot dogs... but nothing else much.

So I definitely nearly ruined a meal that way... almost certain death. Yep.

Then I decided to marinate the ribs in something else. Sleeman's Cream Ale, Brown Sugar, garlic, lemon juice, pepper and sea salt and seasoning salt, sliced red chilis. Hmmm... sort of has some mustard smell, wtf did the damn Dawn not get it out?! AAAAAAAAH.

Oh well. I put some ribs in. Marinading overnight. I hope I don't die.

I then went out and got some Tiger Shrimp from Superstore. Olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, lemon-pepper, salt. Marinated the veggies above and the shrimps and stuck em on skewers 30mins later and grilled em on the BBQ.

Now THAT is a delicious marinade.
Hopefully the beer chili one will be ok... eep.

Honey lime Sleeman ribs

Pork back or beef ribs
1 bottle of beer (I used Sleeman's Original Draft)
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
1 Tbsp Soya sauce
1/2 Tbsp Worchestershire Sauce
1/2 lime squeezed
1/4-1/2 cup of Honey
Pinch of pepper
3 cloves Crushed garlic

Marinate 24hrs.

ANOTHER Roast experiment!!

I don't know what I'm doing... I just garlic pressed a whole lotta garlic, chopped a bit of onion up, and put holes in my Blade roast and put that in with pepper and rosemary. THEN I sprinkled with onion salt, garlic powder, pepper and a spice mix and then poured beer over top (Sleeman's Original Draught to be precise!)

Of course I had already added chopped onions, celery and carrots to the roasting pan and heated them up, and poured Beef Broth in there too with the booze.

THEN... get this.... I poured honey all over that damn roast.

It cooked at 300F for 30mins with the thermometre in (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ROASTS!) then turned down to 250F. This is to ensure even cooking, and the slower it is, the longer it takes for juices to run out thus making the roast a lot less dry. AND WAYYYY more succulent.


NOW let's see if honey beer roast is good! :D I wonder what the gravy will taste like being half beer....
Oh man I'm gonna get drunk off my dinner!!

Standing Rib Roast

Ok so this blog TOTALLY isn't about me trying to subconsciously kill myself. I admit it, it's turned out to be fairly successful list of recipe attempts!

Today's special! Standing Rib Roast, 2.6lbs (or 1.18kg), also called Prime Rib Roast
This is my FAVORITE cut of meat by far. LOVE Prime Rib. MMMM

Recipe:
Pre-heat oven to 200F
In roasting pan place:
Chopped and peeled carrots
Chopped Celery
Chopped onion
The Roast, rib down.

Roast rub: I used the Keg's Steak spice and garlic rubbed into it and seasoning salt.
Olive oil poured all over veggies and Roast.
Some beef broth poured into roasting pan.

Cook at 200F (yes it seems very low for a reason, did you know that water's boiling point is 212F? Why boil away the juices right? So cook long and low, and the meat will be more evenly cooked!! Rare/Medium Rare all the way to the edges!)

Use a meat thermometre, make sure you have it properly calibrated before you use it each time.
Cooking times: 130°F for a medium-rare roast (125°F for rare; 145°F for medium)

I am also making garlic mashed potatoes, and roasted zucchini and eggplant as sides.

It already smells SO GOOD. I have NO CLUE when it will be done.

Scalloped potatoes and a blurb about my horse

So trying to make scalloped potatoes for the first time in my life tonight.
As usual I look at an online recipe, or a book recipe to get the jist of it... then I have at 'er myself.

I used unpeeled Yukon Gold potatoes and 99% lactose reduced milk (couldn't buy my goatmilk for cheap *sigh*) (Wait what? Goatmilk she says??? YES GOAT MILK! It's good and good FOR you! If I could I'd buy camel milk as that is TRULY hypoallergenic. I'm not lactose intolerant, but am allergic to cow dairy)

4-5 Yukon Gold Potatoes sliced thinly (is there a machine that does this? 'cause like... yeah hard to do man!! I mean like time consuming/nearly chop my fingers off before I ruin my tastebuds!)
thinly sliced 1/4 Yellow onion
1/2 tsp Salt and Pepper
3-4 tbsp Flour
2c Milk of your choice (try NOT to use buttermilk or eggnog or soymilk... because I don't advocate it and refuse to take responsibility for you getting sick because you used them!!)
2tspish garlic powder
cheddar cheese, grated

Grease your pan, preheat your oven to 400 F.
Mix the salt, pepper and flour and garlic.
Place your sliced pots as a single layer, covering the whole bottom. cover with some sliced onion.
Sprinkle some flour mix all over.
Dollop teeny bits of Marg/butter in a few places.
Layer more pots, repeat steps til here
Cover with grated cheese.
Boil your milk, pour all over top, add more grated cheese.
Cover with foil and put in oven for 45mins.
Uncover and cook further 15mins?

We shall see!!


Now onto Merlin. I got him an apple flavoured lickit. TOTALLY didn't take to it... but then it slowly started disappearing (it wasn't hanging, it was left in his feed tub)... So I assumed he was liking it? Either that or another horse was put in his stall frequently.

So I go and get him a MOLASSES lickit... yeah right like he dove to? HELL NO, he let ME eat it!
WTF is up with this "healthy" pony?? He sure looooooooooves his mashes though... Mommy makes em extra special on Christmas and bday. Lucky man!