Second Life is like a fine, delicious roast

Sigh, all I had was a can of corn beef hash.

how did i know this thread would turn out with some one shaking there meat?

So, c'mon Enabran, how'd it taste? Don't leave us all in suspense.

One of these days, you and my middle brother, who's responsible for almost all of the excellent food in my house, being a professional chef, will meet.,... and all will be right with the world.

Your threads often make me hungry. A good thing.

After the update, (which also means prepping time for a big bbq and guests from Denver,) I promise I'll deliver the Guinness Cheesecake recipe, along with a Bailey's and also a Grand Marnier cheesecake which you'll have to hand over your keys for.

The taste...

Ah. Hmm.

It tasted...

You know, it would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame of reference.

In any case, I am intensely satisfied with the outcome.

I think you're trying to get us all turned on with this thread.

I'm noticing that the thread is a bit more, er, sensual than my standard fare. So, perhaps by way of explanation:

Fact 1: Enabran is a passionate, passionate man.

Fact 2: Two months is a long time to go without.

Fact 3: Three months is significantly longer.

Cooked beef, straws, and deprivation. Not pretty.

Did you have something to read? Several chapters? Turn on the fan afterwards?

Awwww, poor Enabran!

oKAY.

This took me a while, because it is a recipe I gave my mother. She made it a lot, so I never did after she started making it, and I wanted to find the original book, to make sure the details are correct from the notecard I had given her (which would have been even harder to find than the book was).

I finally found the book just now! Where it was supposed to be all along, but hiding behind some other books in my office. I'll probably start making it myself now that my mother has died, and my daughter called up for the recipe Friday night, actually. (She was trying to make it from taste memory.)

So, here ya go, from Heartburn, a novel by Nora Ephron, told first-person with a cookbook writer as the protagonist. (Made into a movie later with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in it, and did you know - the baby in the movie was Streep's real-life baby, I believe!)

There's even a handy index in the back of the novel to make it easy to find the 15 real recipes given in it. This one, from p. 133, is playwright

Lillian Hellman's Pot Roast

"Lillian Hellman's pot roast is the sort of recipe that makes my reputation in the food world what it is, since it contains all sorts of low-rent ingredients like a package of onion soup mix and a can of cream of mushroom soup. It even has something called Kitchen Bouquet in it, although I always leave it out. You take a nice 4-pound piece of beef, the more expensive the better, and put it into a good pot with 1 can of cream of mushroom soup, an envelope of dried onion soup, 1 large chopped onion, 3 cloves chopped garlic, 2 cups red wine and 2 cups water. Add a crushed bay leaf and 1 teaspoon each thyme and basil. Cover and bake in a 350-degree oven until tender, 3-1/2 hours or so."

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I haven't made this myself in years, having it always at Mother's, so I can't attest anymore to what changes I might have made or might make now in the recipe (or what changes Mother might have made in it over the years), but it's a good recipe to use as a starting point, then fine-tune to your own tastes.

coco

while this thread started out with a referrance to SL, it has since become a discussion more fitting of residence in The Sandbox.

as such, it has been moved from General to The Sandbox.