Flexibility in the Kitchen: Sometimes, You’ve Got to Punt

Say, hypothetically, that last week, when it was reasonable cool in the evenings, you decided that you were going to make pot roast and mashed potatoes using Tyler Florence’s recipes for both. Imagine that you have purchased the meat and the potatoes, as well as some broccoli which was to be roasted with a Parmesan crust. Now picture this: its hot. Very, very hot. Its already 90 degrees, and with the air conditioner on you can only get the house to 75 degrees when you are NOT running an oven for 2 1/2 hours. The idea of pot roast and mashed potatoes, which would make you swoon with delight in December, is just plain repulsive. Its time to punt. The Meat I had 3 pounds of top round, which was supposed to be the pot roast. I didn’t want to run the oven, so roasting and broiling were out. I consider cutting it into small steaks and pan-frying with some shallots and garlic and then making a sauce by de-glazing the pan with some red wine, but rejected that idea because top roun

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