Roast Beef
~ adapted from Trisha Yearwood ~
Salt and pepper all sides of a 5-pound boneless chuck roast.
On aluminum foil, shiny side-up, chop red onion over the meat. Pour evenly 1/4 cup cider vinegar. Fold up the top and sides of foil to hold liquid while cooking, having 1 inch of water in the pan. Place in a 450 degree oven for 3 to 4 hours or until falling apart with the prick of a fork.
If gravy is desired, let the fat set up just enough over the broth to remove it, using only the broth with flour for the gravy.
Skirt in the Kitchen hint: Cook this the night or day prior, warm up in a covered skillet adding a little water in the bottom of the skillet if there isn’t enough broth… but cook it into pieces within the broth (fat removed from the broth) to warm up for a meal– a quick and easy way for the following day.
Cornmeal-Flour Rosemary Butter Biscuits
~ Skirt in the Kitchen ~
Measure 1 1/2 cups AP flour, 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, and 3/4 teaspoons salt into a bowl.
Blend with 1/2 cup coarse cornmeal which gives it a slight crunch. These biscuits are meant to be thin, sort of like a savory shortbread, having specks of yellow throughout the interior.
Add nutmeg with the rosemary, working both in the butter content.
Moisten with gradual addition of milk in a thin stream while cutting it in with a fork– 2/3 cups or more if needed. Do not handle more than necessary to prevent toughness when baked.
Dough will seem fragile, barely keeping together. Lightly roll out in little flour and cut into biscuits, putting a tiny dab of butter and rosemary on the top of each one. Butter will adhere the rosemary. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 15 minutes.
Onion Green Beans
~ Skirt in the Kitchen ~
Put 1 1/2 inches water in the bottom of a saucepan of long-stemmed green beans. As thin as can be sliced, sliver off pieces of yellow onion. Include some of the roasted onion, having both to season the beans well. Add minced garlic– 2 cloves. Salt and pepper; add 1 tablespoon beef grease from the chuck roast. Cook steaming hot with still of a crunchiness and bright green color.
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