Roastalicious

On my way home from work tonight I decided I wanted roast vegies for dinner, so I stopped past my awesome LBS (Local Butcher Shop heh) and green grocers and came home with a really chunk of beef (1.5kg's) and lots of vegies. The meat only needed about 45 minutes in the oven so I par cooked the vegies (tatoes, carrot and punkin) in the microwave while I sealed the beef in a pan with garlic and shallots in the pan and then put them all into the roasting dish with some olive oil in the pan I tossed the vegies around to get them coated in the garlic, shallots and olive oil mixture and then into the oven on 180. Halfway through I moved the vegies around in the pan and then after about 45 mins the meat was ready so I took it out and rested it for a bit on the carving tray, put the vegies onto another metal tray and put it back in the oven with it cranked up to about 240 or so. I then attempted to make gravy with the pan juices and well... It didn't go that well as it was a short cook roast and not a lot of flavour left in the pan, but I rescued it a bit and it turned into an alright beef, garlic and shallot gravy.
The beef was beautifully cooked and nice and pink all through and was really easy to cut and was delicious! Yum!!

I now have lots of left over roast beef and roast vegies -I love cold roast tatoes!! I may have slightly too much left over beef... ooh could make beef shepherds pie maybe! :D