Roast beef

Donkey sauce with an 8-hour slow cooked rib eye fillet roast by Yummy Lummy

Donkey sauce I hear you ask? I made it for the first time last night and had it with leftover beef brisket on a brioche bun.

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8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce Gary Lum
8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce

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Recipe

Donkey sauce with an 8-hour slow cooked rib eye fillet roast
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
8 hrs
Total Time
8 hrs 20 mins
 
The main part of this recipe is the beef, the donkey sauce just makes it better, similar to the way horseradish can enhance beef.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Servings: 1
Calories: 1000 kcal
Author: Gary Lum
Ingredients
  • 2 kg rib eye fillet roast (rolled and tied)
  • 1 turnip (diced)
  • 1 potato (diced)
  • 1 Hawaiian sweet potato (diced)
  • 1 onion (diced)
  • 1 carrot (diced)
  • 2 stalks celery (sliced)
  • 1 cup wine
  • 1 cup stock
  • spring onions (sliced)
  • Parsley (chopped)
  • Lime zest
  • Caramelised onion
  • Lettuce
  • Tomato
  • Donkey sauce
Instructions
  1. In the slow cooker vessel add the onion, carrot, celery, potato, turnip and sweet potato and then pour in the wine and stock. It doesn’t really matter what wine and stock you use.
  2. Place the rolled rib eye fillet on top of the vegetables and then place the slow cooker vessel into the body of the slow cooker and turn on for eight hours.
  3. After eight hours prepare a salad of tomato, lettuce and spring onion with some parsley too.
  4. Open the slow cooker and lift out the beef. Allow the beef to rest covered with aluminium foil for fifteen minutes.

    Eight-hour slow cooked beef straight out of the slow cooker Gary Lum
  5. After the beef has rested, carve the rolled roast into three even portions. Vacuum pack and seal two portions and place in the freezer for later enjoyment.
  6. Place the remaining portion into a shallow bowl and the plate up with the salad. Add a good portion of donkey sauce to meat and a couple of tablespoons of caramelised onion.
  7. Garnish with chopped parsley and lime zest.
    Limes ready for juicing and zesting Gary Lum loves lime
  8. Shoot a photograph and then enjoy the sumptuousness that is 8-hour slowly cooked rib eye fillet roast.
  9. Wash the dishes.
  10. Write the recipe and blog hoping people who read this will share it on social media, especially on their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.
Recipe Notes

This dish will satisfy you and make you happy enough to smile  just at the thought of it. Meat is good.

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Limes ready for juicing and zesting Gary Lum loves lime
Limes ready for juicing and zesting
Eight-hour slow cooked beef straight out of the slow cooker Gary Lum
Eight-hour slow cooked beef straight out of the slow cooker
8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce Gary Lum
8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce
Donkey sauce ready for dripping all over myself Gary Lum
Donkey sauce ready for dripping all over myself

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Frequently asked questions

Why do you like slowly cooking beef so much?

I love the flavour but mostly the texture of the muscle bundles separating with little effort and that cutting across the grain is almost effortless with a good knife which means chewing is a joy.

Who created donkey sauce?

I answered this in my recent post. Check it out.

Why do you eat so much?

It’s a weakness. I must stop eating so much.

Do you have any similar recipes?

You better believe it. Check 1, 2, and 3.

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Succulent slow roasted rib eye beef

Slowly roasted succulent slow roasted rib eye beef on the bone with red and white quinoa rice and roast capsicum, onion, nuts, cheese and maple syrup served with Grumpy's brewed ginger beer
Slowly roasted rib eye beef on the bone with red and white quinoa rice and roast capsicum, onion, nuts, cheese and maple syrup served with Grumpy’s brewed ginger beer

Tonight I cooked a really succulent slow roasted rib eye beef with red and white quinoa rice plus roasted cheesy vegetables.

I reckon in many ways it’s relatively easy to roast poultry, lamb and even pork. Beef though can be a bugger to roast so it’s tender and succulent.

The answer is always low and slow.

Succulent slow roasted rib eye beef
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://garylum.me” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Rib eye roast with the bone in (500 g)
  • Brown onion
  • Red onion
  • Red quinoa
  • White quinoa
  • Arborio rice
  • Black peppercorns
  • Red capsicum
  • Green capsicum
  • Lemon zest
  • Olive oil
  • Coon cheese
  • Salted mixed nuts (crushed)
  • Dried mixed herbs
  • Maple syrup
  • Horseradish
Instructions
  1. In a baking tray place the halves of a brown onion
  2. Rest the beef on the onion
  3. Add a handful of red and white quinoa and rice to the baking tray
  4. Add 1 glass of water
  5. Add a small handful of black peppercorns
  6. Season the beef with salt and dried mixed herbs
  7. Cover with aluminium foil
  8. Place into an oven at 150 °C for 3 hours
  9. At the 2 hour mark add a baking tray with sliced onion and capsium that has been oiled and seasoned. Pour on some maple syrup and sprinkle the grated Coon on top and put into the oven for the remaining hour of cooking
  10. At 3 hours remove the beef and allow to rest covered for a full 20 minutes
  11. Cut off one bone and put the rest into a vacuum pack bag and seal and then freeze
  12. Plate up the beef with the vegetables, quinoa rice and onion. Add a generous dollop of horseradish
  13. [url href=”https://goo.gl/photos/qdxreMgQAM4vJPtf7″ target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Shoot a photograph[/url]
  14. Eat the meal
  15. Wash the dishes
  16. Write the recipe
  17. Blog (verb)

It was a nice day in Canberra today. A little cool but the sky was blue.

Framed bird on Lake Ginninderra
Framed bird on Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra

Have you ever cooked a really succulent slow roasted rib eye beef? Tell me about it.

Canberra Day Monday Link Love

Canberra day breakfast bacon and eggs
Canberra day breakfast bacon and eggs

Today is Canberra Day. Canberra Day is a public holiday held on the second Monday of March. The day is meant to celebrate the naming of Canberra as the Australian capital. The first day was on 12 March 1913 and the naming was officiated by Lady Denman the wife of the then Governor-General, Lord Denman.

It worked out well for me. My flight from Brisbane yesterday was delayed and I didn’t get back to my apartment until after sunset. I hadn’t done any washing, ironing, cleaning or grocery shopping. Canberra Day 2016 was like a Saturday. A day to catch up on work e-mail and do some housework.

I managed to get a walk in and some cooking.

HDR on Lake Ginninderra
HDR on Lake Ginninderra
Seagull on Lake Ginninderra
Seagull on Lake Ginninderra
Making a lamb and rosemary meat pie better with cheese and chili flakes
Making a lamb and rosemary meat pie better with cheese and chili flakes
Slowly roasted blade beef with quinoa coleslaw and onion
Slowly roasted blade beef with quinoa coleslaw and onion

Monday Link Love

Every Monday members of the Canberra Food Bloggers Facebook Group have an opportunity to share a post from their blogs. I like to list those that have been shared. Please check them out.

 I also want to mention that my friend Jennifer from Little Monster Girl webcomic has a new webcomic for special subscribers. It’s about Zela’s summer holidays.

Weekend recovery

Gary Lum Pialligo Estate streaky bacon
Pialligo Estate streaky bacon

A weekend recovery is what I needed. I’ve recently spent two weeks in Manila for work and ended up getting respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses. Suffice to say I still have a hacking cough which has also given me a sore back and my bowels still feel a little delicate although I feel a lot better now that I can control what I’m eating and breathing fresh air.

On Thursday night I watched Maeve O’Meara on Food Safari on SBS and she did a segment on Pialligo Estate artisan bacon. It’s my favourite bacon. It’s also local bacon smoked in Canberra. I decided I buy some for the weekend.

Friday night I made myself chicken thigh schnitzel burger inspired by Hilah Johnson.

Gary Lum Grilled cheese chicken thigh schnitzel cheeseburger with avocado
Grilled cheese chicken thigh schnitzel cheeseburger with avocado

For Saturday breakfast I made myself a Pialligo Estate streaky bacon and fried egg roll.

Gary Lum Pialligo Estate streaky bacon
Pialligo Estate streaky bacon
Gary Lum Pialligo Estate streaky bacon and fried egg roll
Pialligo Estate streaky bacon and fried egg roll

For lunch I felt like some raw onion and coleslaw with cream cheese

Gary Lum Red onion with coleslaw in a cream cheese sandwich
Red onion with coleslaw in a cream cheese sandwich

For dinner I made a chicken schnitzel sandwich.

Gary Lum Chicken thigh schnitzel coleslaw and cheese sandwich
Chicken thigh schnitzel coleslaw and cheese sandwich

I felt well enough on Sunday to go for a walk around Lake Ginninderra

But for breakfast I had some melted cheese on toast

Gary Lum Melted cheese on toast
Melted cheese on toast
Gary Lum Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Gary Lum Cows on Lake Ginninderra
Cows on Lake Ginninderra
Portable toilet on Lake Ginninderra
Portable toilet on Lake Ginninderra
Gary Lum Man in the lake
Man in the lake
Gary Lum Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra

For lunch after I did my ironing and watched an episode of Star Trek TNG I made myself a Pialligo Estate streaky bacon cheeseburger

Gary Lum Pialligo Estate streaky bacon cheeseburger
Pialligo Estate streaky bacon cheeseburger

For dinner on Sunday I slowly roasted some blade beef with some quinoa and vegetables. I had enough left over for two more meals.

Gary Lum Slowly roasted blade beef with quinoa, carrot and onion
Slowly roasted blade beef with quinoa, carrot and onion

The meat just fell apart as I pressed down with my knife.

How often do you need a weekend recovery?


Monday link love

It’s been awhile since I’ve done this properly. Each Monday the members of the Canberra Food Bloggers Facebook group share blog posts. Today here is a selection of those shared.

 

Cooking Greg’s creamy caper sauce

Cooking Greg’s creamy caper sauce wasn’t really anything new or special. Making a cream sauce is pretty routine but watching this video last week gave me an idea for how I was going to enjoy my leftover rib eye beef and leftover lamb shoulder. I find Greg’s videos pretty funny. His YouTube channel has a pretty good reach and it demonstrates how with persistence and dedication you can make a success from meagre resources.

Saturday started as Saturdays do with grocery shopping and then a walk around Lake Ginninderra. I shot some photographs while I was out and about.

For lunch I had some Coles smoked salmon and feta stuffed peppers on Philadelphia cream cheese slathered Vita-Weat biscuits.

A photograph of Feta stuffed peppers with smoked salmon on Vita-Weat.
Feta stuffed peppers with smoked salmon on Vita-Weat.

In the afternoon I enjoyed the mild thunderstorm that Canberra experienced.

Thunderstorm from Gary Lum on Vimeo.

For dinner I had thawed the beef and lamb in the Foodsaver bags. Normally I would eat the meat after I’d heated the bags in a saucepan of hot water for about 30 minutes but this time I seared each side of meat in a hot frying pan with browning butter.

Cooking Greg’s creamy caper sauce
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://garylum.me” target=”_blank”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • [url href=”https://yummylummy.com/2016/01/24/standing-rib-eye-roast-beef/” target=”_blank”]Leftover ribeye fillet standing roast[/url]
  • [url href=”https://yummylummy.com/2016/01/26/here-is-my-australia-day-roast-lamb-dinner/” target=”_blank”]Leftover Australia Day lamb shoulder[/url]
  • White wine
  • Capers
  • Pouring cream
  • Butter
  • Salt
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. Heat the beef and lamb in the Foodsaver bags in a saucepan of hot water
  2. When heated through remove the meat from the bags and take the carrots and onion and place on a plate and keep them warm
  3. Sear the meat in brown butter in a hot frying pan
  4. Cover the meat and allow it to rest
  5. Add ½ cup of white wine and reduce
  6. Add ¼ cup pouring cream and the capers and reduce to a sauce
  7. Season with salt and pepper
  8. Plate up the meat and vegetables and pour a good amount of sauce on the meat
  9. Shoot a photograph
  10. Eat the meal and enjoy the meaty goodness
  11. Wash the dishes
  12. Write the recipe
  13. Blog (verb)

 

Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
A rock near Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra

A photograph of my Leftover vacuum packed rib eye beef and lamb shoulder with creamy caper sauce served with carrot and onion.
Leftover vacuum packed rib eye beef and lamb shoulder with creamy caper sauce served with carrot and onion.
Dusky light on Lake Ginninderra
Dusky light on Lake Ginninderra

Do you like creamy caper sauce?