Abigail and Dolley readers this year I have set a goal to eliminate food waste in our home. From a financial perspective, it is estimated that Americans are wasting 40% of the food we buy. That is astounding when you contemplate the staggering costs to the family. I recognize that we won't be perfect but we are going to give it a good try, and if I do have something go bad as long as it's fruit or veg, it will go to the compost bin. There are tons of blogs about repurposing your left overs and I am sure in the coming year, I'll be consulting them for inspiration.
On New Year's Eve, I used my turkey roasting pan made a huge Bottom Round Roast with potatoes, celery, onions, mushrooms, and carrots. I'd never made a Bottom Round Roast; always been a Chuck Roast kid of gal. My son isn't a fan of chuck roast and it doesn't make good lunch meat, so I rolled the dice and bought a Bottom Round Roast. All the recipes say to brown it off and then braise in the oven fully submerged in liquid. Well, a turkey roaster holds A LOT of water. I cooked it to medium temperature and it was hard as a rock, so I put it back in the 250 degree oven for a couple more hours. I'd seasoned the water but this roast did not release a ton of juice so the au jus was just plain watery.
The veggies sort of slowly boiled and the meat had a good flavor, so we ate pot roast the next night. I tried to play it off, because holy cow there was a ton of this stuff, but in the end it just wasn't that good. So I started out the New Year with a giant pan of not so good pot roast.
Here's what I did with it...
Jan 5, 2014
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