Made my 5 pound bone-in beef roast, I bought with a gift card I got some years back, so: I like beef roast with mashed potatoes (REAL) and cucumber salad.
I peeled, ( I found last time unpeeled cucumbers are fine in a dinner salad but not other wise) four cucumbers sliced them and sliced five small garden onions (different varieties) with bite, and added a yellow sweet pepper (from fridge as I have a lot of chiles in the garden but this one was use now or toss).
Salted heavily with Sea Salt, peppered heavily with pepper from a grinder, let it sit for water to seep out an dump out later.
Cooked the roast over a wood fire, mostly apple wood but a large decades old chunk of Honduran Mahogany and pieces of boards.
Seared over coals on one side, flipped it and slid it over to the cooler side for approx. one hour.
Drained the cuke salad, added heavy cream, half & half, and a good pour of white vinegar. (I have used othe vinegars but white is pretty much the best.)
Sliced some the other half and I, but, when I went back for seconds, I cut off a bone almost a foot in length, with some meat attached, and ate that like one does a piece of chicken.
I cannot afford to buy beef like I did in years past, approx. $500 plus or minus a year for various cuts, (the chuck roast cost 35 dollars, and the foo-foo stuff I used to get online makes that look cheap) but after this I am going throw away some more money on a roast or LARGE steak or two any way.
