The Yum Yum Factor

I recently made my first roast beef using a crazy method that involves blasting the roast at 500F for about 5 minutes per pound before turning the oven off and walking away for two hours. It was a sirloin tip and I cooked it to a perfectly rare roast, much to our shock and awe. I am now officially a fan of roast beef and am anxious to try different cuts of beef using this method. I bought an outside round oven roast on sale and planned to try this crazy pants roasting method on it to see what would happen when you use a less tender cut of meat. Normally, I would throw this type of roast into the crock pot and let it cook til it fell apart. I went to see August: Osage County that afternoon with a couple of girlfriends and told Shack that if he was home, it would be great if he took the meat out of the fridge at 3pm so it could rest for two hours. If it came out any later than that, we would be looking at a dinner hour that would be require eating my meal in bed and eating roast b...

I hate making New Year's resolutions. I don't mind quietly taking stock of myself and deciding that I will take note of a few things I would like to change, some improvements that could be made or other stuff that needs to be continued in the new year ahead but I never make any sort of declaration. I hate making a list of them and I hate attempting to commit myself to things I have no intention of following through with for an entire year. Let's be honest, I am not going to stop drinking red wine, I might start doing more yoga again and it's possible that I will endeavour to yell a little less but it won't be because I made a resolution to do so.