SUNDAY DINNER

I decided to cook a roast with potatoes for dinner today. I figured this would probably last me the rest of the week and I could make sandwiches out of it. I took unpacked the roast and lathered it in chopped garlic and put some potatoes around it like so.













I had already pre-heated the oven but to what temperature I was not to sure. This is the dial of my oven.














It goes without saying that the oven is old. I'm not sure what it takes to rub off the degree settings but someone must have scrubbed very hard. Another past tenant must have been just as annoyed at the lack of actual temperature data and tried to etch numbers into the metal of the dial. My camera is not sophisticated enough to pick up the tiny etchings but trust my they are there. So I set the oven for somewhere between 200 and 400 and hoped for the best.

After about an hour I checked on the roast and it appeared to be warming rather than cooking. I rotated the dial an eighth of turn and again hoped for the best. An hour and a half later I pulled the following pipping hot well done roast out of the oven.














I usually like roast rare but I was just happy to have not made it crispy by this time. That being said the potatoes were still not cooked all the way through. So I put them back in on a setting far too high for far too long. When they came out the insides were great but the outer quarter inch made that part difficult to access.