roasted chuck, roasted bananas

2021-09-03

The regular recommendation for chuck roast is moist-cooking, i.e. pot roast or stew. This week's advertisement of the local groceries store Peppers showed a picture of what looked like a roasted piece. I decided to give it a try that way.

Kitcheneering experiment # 476: This was true dry-roast, similar to what I do with London broil, ribeye steak or T-bone steak; but this time with chuck roast.

I did cook at lower than usual temperature to avoid overcooking, missed the mark on that. I overdid it just a bit—demonstrating once again the benefits of using a meat thermometer— but I got it out in time to avoid turning all of it into shoe leather. I gave it 45 minutes @ 270 ºF (30-35 minutes would probably have been better for this piece) and 5 minutes broiler each side.

Baked bananas are usually served as dessert; but hey, if it is permissible to serve apple sauce with meat, why not this as well? I liked it. These were the regular sweett bananas, not plantains. I had them in the house, and they needed to be eaten.

INGREDIENTS

This is what you need for 2+ servings:

1 chuck roast 2-3 lbs.
2 ripe bananas
S&P, sugar, olive oil
Provençal sauce with oyster mushrooms

Pic1: roasted chuck & bananas

Directions

2021-09-03

Pic8-10: roasting bananas

Preheat oven @ 270 ºF.
Cut the bananas in slices.
Arrange in an ovenproof dish.
Sprinkle 2 tbsp. sugar and 2 tbsp. olive oil over the bananas.
Bake for 45 minutes @ 270 ºF.
The low temperature will limit caramelizing or burning the sugar.
Remove from the oven. Set aside.

Pic2: Peppers advertisement
Pic3: before cooking
Pic4: after cooking

Add a splash of olive oil to an iron cast pan.
Season the steak both sides and pull it through the oil.
Bake for 30-35 minutes @ 270 ºF, or until internal temperature is 130-135 ºF.
If desired, baste occasionally.
Switch to broiler for 5 minutes on both sides.
Remove from the oven.

Pic5: cooked
Pic6: slice
Pic7: sliced

Rest 5-10 minutes.
Don't rest the roast if you've overcooked it. You'd want to cut it open ASAP.
Slice thinly.

Pic11+12: Provençal sauce with ground meat
Pic13: banana, served

Stir-fry some ground meat.
Add and reheat the sauce.
If preparing Provençal sauce with oyster mushrooms from scratch, you'll need to start at least 2 hrs. before you start cooking the steak.
Serve the sauce with or over the meat, with the baked bananas on the side.
Enjoy.

See also: Deming, NM gardens, animals and more and avemariasongs.org

See also: Deming, NM gardens, animals and more
and avemariasongs.org