Meat

I love a bit of raw meat. However winning 3 huge meat trays at The Local’s raffle on Friday night has produced somewhat of a meat glut in the house.

On Sunday I roasted the world’s largest roast beef. I’m great at roast lamb and roast pork but had only ever tried roast beef once before. That time? I threw it in the bin and got a pizza. This time I harnessed the power of the interweb, and googled “how to cook roast beef” before commencing. Apparently you cook it in a slow oven, not medium like a leg of lamb or pork. Actually, not even just apparently – it is true, I sealed it on high for 20 minutes then reduced it to a low oven temperature and slow roasted it for 4 hours. It was so delicious and tender. Roast beef sandwiches this week for leftovers have been an added benefit. Although only on day 2 of roast beef sandwiches and with about 6 bajillion slices of roast beef yet to get through I am concerned I’m over it already.

What on earth am I going to do with the rest of the meat? The freezer is so full of meat I ended up writing a list of what was in the freezer. It’s something like this:

• 1 pack of 8 sausages
• 1 pack of 4 sausages
• 1 pack of 4 huge pork chops
• 2 packs of 4 big lamb forequarter chops (which I don’t like much – might have to casserole these)
• 1 pack of 3 T Bone steaks
• 4 rashers of bacon
• 2 packs of 5 lamb stewing chops
• steak and mushroom pie filling (home made and frozen ready to pop in a big pie crust)
• chicken and leek pie filling (also home made but only enough for a snack size not a huge pie)
• 1 packet of mystery meat. No idea what it is. Looks like it might be steak. After finding this, I labelled the rest as I froze it.

That’s just the bits I remember. Shame I really feel like chicken tonight.

Tags: Food, The Local