quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

prime rib roast au jus serves 6-8

It’s Sunday

This easy, but it’s real impressive for the family or guests. If you don’t already have one, get a meat thermometer.

Any good Sunday kind of carb. will work. Baked potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, garlic mashed potatoes, etc. etc.

Poppop and Gammy like boiled carrots or broccoli or carrots and broccoli.

You’ll need a 3 rib prime rib roast. Ask the butcher to trim off the chin bone and the excess fat. Make about a cup and a half of beef bouillon.

Pre heat the oven to 450deg. Rub the roast with olive oil then salt and pepper. Put the roast in a heavy oven proof pan or a casserole dish Whatever you use should have a little bit of sides to it ‘cause you’re going to make the au jus sauce in it after the meat is done. Put the meat in the pan fat side down and roast at 450 for about 20 min. lower the temp to 325 and cook until a test with the meat thermometer says 115 deg. This oughta take about an hour and a half. Switch the roast to a cutting board that you've put in a cookie sheet and let it rest. As it rests it will continue to cook and firm up a little making it hold the juices better. Take the excess fat out of the pan you roasted the beef in and add about a cup and a half of red wine. Cook on the stove at med high for about 5 min. scraping the browned stuff off the bottom of the pan. At this point you can strain the wine stuff into a smaller sauce pan or not. I usually opt for not. Add the beef bouillon and cook until reduced by almost half and thickened. Whisk in about 2 tbsp. of butter. Salt and pepper to taste. Keep it warm while you slice the roast. Slice the roast across the grain like as if it’s a loaf of bread. Trim it off the bones as you go along or not. Some people like the bone left on if the slices hit that way. It should be rare in the middle. The ends are there for people who like well done. I put the cutting board in the cookie sheet to save the juices then whisk the juices into the gravy.

Serve it up!!! right away with some of the gravy on the meat slices. Some good crusty bread, the carb. de juer, veggies and the rest of that red wine!!