Dinner fail
So last night I made a “pot roast”. I put that in quotes because really it was more of a “crap roast”. The meat I chose was terrible, the potatoes and carrots didn’t get done and the gravy was to put mildly, “Weak Sauce.”
So hey I threw it out. The kids and frozen pizza and Jen and I scrounged around the kitchen for other stuff. I think she was more successful with hummus than my, “fuck it I’m having a candy bar for dinner.”
The cookbook I’ve been reading Cooking For Geeks does talk about meals “crashing” and how like anything else you just learn from it. So what did I learn?
- Buy a better roast.
- Fuck the Crock-pot. Even on high it doesn’t get hot enough for this.
- Sear the roast because yes it is important.
- Cut the potatoes smaller as well as the carrots.
- Have some stock on hand for when the gravy is weak.
So there I learned from the crash dump of last night’s failed meal. Hey I got one thing right, when we threw it away it went straight out to the garage. But really that was Jen’s idea so yeah I failed.
