2008-01-28
Junior Hockey and roasts
What do you do with a 22lb roast for a supper that isn't going to
happen? Have you ever cooked a 22 pound roast before? I don't think I
have. I've cooked plenty of 4 or 5 pound roasts but not 22 pounds. Well I
had to trust my cookbook which I have had for 40 years. It is a good
cookbook but I would hate to have to eat roast after it was cooked as long
as they suggested. They must cook awfully tough roasts.
A young man from my town, whom my son played hockey with a few years ago
had the opportunity to be picked for the Canadian Junior Hockey team that
played in the World's in the Czech Republic. He helped the team bring home
the Gold for Canada. My town decided that he deserved a supper put on in his
honour. I was asked if I would cook one of the roasts.
The cookbook said for a medium well done roast I should cook it for
24 to 29 min. per pound. Ok, you do the math. 22 times 24 is ..yes.. 528
minutes. Now divide that by 60 (mins in an hour)... ok so you know that..
Well that comes out to 8.8 hours. The supper is at seven but I had to
have the roast at the rink at six with the gravy. I live about 5 miles from
town so I wanted the roast ready to come out of the oven by five so I
would have time to make the gravy and get in town by six.
I decided to start at nine this morning because I wanted to brown it
first to have nice flavoured gravy. Then I put the lid on it and turned
the oven to 325*F (about 150*C), and went about my day. Around 11:00 -
11:30am I received a phone call saying the supper was cancelled! You see
we are having one doozy of a blizzard right at the moment. It started
about an hour after I put the roast in the oven. Now I knew the
weathermen were forecasting a blizzard but this is a big province and it
could have very well missed us. But of course it didn't, I had a roast in
the oven.... Anyway I was told to keep cooking it and they would sell it
in sandwiches at a hockey game.
So, why I was unhappy with the cookbook was the fact that it only took
five hours to cook the roast. I would say they were way off on their
estimation! I was the only one who had started my roast. The others had
cooked big roasts before, so they knew how long it would take. You live
and learn, do your own estimations!??
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Words of wisdom from an Old Farmer: {not me :o) } Every path has a few
puddles.
Oh, by the way, we do get to have some of that roast for supper.
It would be cruel and unusual punishment to makes us smell that roast and
not get a taste of it! There may be puddles but some are small enough
to step over! So the rink and my husband and I all win.
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