Pressure cooker rolled roast with gravy, roast pumpkin, and baby green peas.
Dear Reader,
I hope you’ve had a good week.
My week has been okay. Lockdown continues in Canberra while the situation in New South Wales improves as the infection burns out and the situation in Victoria worsens as peak infection numbers are yet to be realised.
We should be ending lockdown in Canberra at the end of this week. I hope the restrictions remain flexible to ensure maximum safety. I know workmates who desperately want their children back in school because homeschooling is doing their heads in. Other friends are more concerned for the health and welfare of their children and their community and don’t mind the burden of homeschooling.
My preference is for community safety and health, not just physical health but also mental health.
I know my mental health is improved by cooking because I find it relaxing.
One thing which is playing on my mind though is the high likelihood the premier of Queensland will close the border to Canberrans at Christmas. I would like to see my daughters and parents. I haven’t seen them since early December last year.
Ingredients
- Rolled roast
- Iodised salt
- Master stock
- Red wine
- Leek
- Brown onion
- Celery
- Red royale potato
- Fennel
- Kent pumpkin
- Baby green peas
- Instant gravy
Instructions
- Remove the rolled roast from the plastic wrapping.
- Dry the surface of the beef with an absorbent paper towel.
- Season the meat with a liberal amount of iodised salt.
- Slice the leek, onion, celery, potato, and fennel.
- Place the sliced vegetables into the bottom of the cooking vessel.
- Add the master stock and wine.
- Place the meat on top and close the pressure cooker by sealing the lid.
- Cook under pressure for one hour.
- Roast the pumpkin in the oven.
- Use microwave radiation for cooking the peas.
- Make the instant gravy according to the instructions for use.
- When everything is ready, plate it up.
- Give thanks to our Heavenly Father for this food.
Final thoughts
- How are you coping with the pandemic where you live?
- Do you like cooking roast beef in your pressure cooker?
- What are your plans for Christmas?
Rolled roast 
Rolled roast Salted 
Sliced celery, fennel, brown onion, red royale potato, and leek 
Rolled roast cooked 
Sorry vegans and vegetarians, tonight is very meaty. Saturday lockdown dinner. Pressure cooker rolled roast with gravy, roast pumpkin, and baby green peas. 
Sorry vegans and vegetarians, tonight is very meaty. Saturday lockdown dinner. Pressure cooker rolled roast with gravy, roast pumpkin, and baby green peas. Sorry vegans and vegetarians, tonight is very meaty. Saturday lockdown dinner. Pressure cooker rolled roast with gravy, roast pumpkin, and baby green peas. 
Sorry vegans and vegetarians, tonight is very meaty. Saturday lockdown dinner. Pressure cooker rolled roast with gravy, roast pumpkin, and baby green peas.
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I hope yours works out and is resolved.
Thank you.
Am not sure why cooking meat in a pressure cooker is something I’ve not done often. Will need to try it again! Usually do veggies. Not quite looking at Christmas yet. The family consists of 4 here and we always get together. I’d love to see the eldest, but that is not logical. VA is a long way from the PNW and his house is fighting him plumbing and nails!
I hope you give cooking meat in the pressure cooker a good go
The rabbit won’t fit……
It’s sad you haven’t seen your parents and daughters for such a long time Gary. I was so lucky to spend a month up at the Gold Coast April/May this year as like you, I probably won’t be able to visit this Christmas.
Thanks, Sue. I will remain optimistic I’ll see them all together again. My parents are elderly and frail and one of my daughters is leaving Brisbane. This might be the only time they’re all together.
Mmm! That gravy, like molten lava, perfect for a loco moco. Hee hee. 🙂
That’s a great way to describe it brother
It’s our first day out but I’m not quite ready to go out yet. I’m treating it cautiously as my husband saw a suburb within our LGA with an absurd number of people in a covid testing line! I hope you guys get out soon!
Thanks, Lorraine. I think the ACT will lift lockdown on Friday no matter what the numbers. I will remain cautious.
Yum! Never tried roast beef in a pressure cooker, but this does look very nice. I very much hope you get to see your parents and girls soon.
Thank you very much, Emma
I hope you get to see your family this Christmas.
Thank you very much