Having grown up in Michigan's lower peninsula, fall is a time of great nostalgia for me - a nostalgia almost exclusively centered about food! Fall in the Midwest meant gorgeous colored leaves, a plethora of garden squash, kale, pumpkins, and cabbage, apple picking, cider pressing, and of course, family football games! The scent of cinnamon, apples, crisp leaves in the orchard, roasted root vegetables, and slow cooked Sunday family suppers all conjures up warm, happy memories. Tonight, being Sunday, I have decided to give in to my nostalgia and make my own Sunday supper, even if it is in Georgia and raining for the 9th day in a row! Nothing lifts the spirits like comfy food, a choice vintage, and good company!
Slow Roasted Beef and Autumn Vegetables
1 2-3lb Beef Roast (any lean, choice cut will work)
Sea Salt and Pepper (to taste)
Fresh Thyme and Rosemary (full sprigs)
3 small Onions (quartered)
2 Sweet Potatoes (peeled and cut into large pieces)
5 Carrots (peeled and cut into large pieces)
1 Apple (peeled and chopped)
3 cloves Garlic (peeled and crushed)
2 cups Red Table Wine
Heat oven to 325.
Rub beef with salt and pepper. Place in covered roasting dish, surround with prepared raw vegetables, apple, and garlic. Tuck sprigs of herbs around meat and vegetables. Pour 1 cup of wine over all, season with salt and pepper. Roast covered in the oven for 1.5 hours. Add another cup of wine and baste with jus. Roast another 45 minutes-1 hour, checking to be sure meat is not getting dry. Serves 4-6.
I am planning to serve with a spinach salad topped with toasted pine nuts and dried tart cherries in a fig vinaigrette.
I'll tell you how it tastes!
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2. Know your food--you don't have to be all formal and Emily Postish, but a decent knowledge is advisable.
3. Eat slowly--pretend you are molasses, the month is January and you're in the Arctic.
4. Eat with others--friends, family, the stray alley cat.
5. Eat without gadgets--no TV, texting, or emailing, or gnu hunting.
6. Have a glass of wine with dinner--never more than two or your taste buds will get drowned out and you won't even remember how good the meal was anyways.
7. Enjoy your food--using the 5 senses. A sign of enjoyment in Myanmar is throwing food across the table at your host's forehead. If you are at a restaurant a waiter will do.
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The History of the Cuisine Regime
Once upon a time there was a lone journalist freezing to death in the Siberia-like climes of the Midwest. Life was cold, life was tough, life was hard. So the journalist moved south. There the journalist, Plunket, ran into a political consultant who loved to cook--Bella Cucina.
Unbeknownst to the neighboring suburbanites dwelling in their peaceful monochromatic houses a revolution had been unleashed! Not a political one, not an economic one, not quite a cultural one but one rather of good taste--fine food, drink and camaraderie.
Plunket and Bella Cucina wanted to enjoy food based on their respective European travels, their roots and really anything in between that had any merit whatsoever. So they started the Cuisine Regime. (It was also a good distraction while BC waited for her fiancee to return from a hush-hush operation abroad. And while Plunket got all the gum unstuck from her hair using JIF peanut butter, crunchy not smooth.)
The CR, as you know, has 7 Cornerstones. But, more than that, it is a way of life based on the 5 senses. Aristotle once said 2 things (well, he actually said a lot of things but we don't really need to go into that here, it could take forever):
1) Virtue is found in the mean between two extremes.
2) Ugly people cannot be happy.
In re to #1, what old Aristotle meant was too much of anything isn't any good and we must have balance. The CR heartily embraces this. Too much salt can make a dish unpalatable, too little--dull as dishwater (never used that phrase before but never really had to either.) Too much wine, you say stupid things, too little--you say nothing. Too much hairspray, you look like you got your finger stuck in an outlet during the 80's, too little--you don't look like you got your finger stuck in an outlet during the 80's. You get the point. And we will try and follow this rule of virtue-as-a-mean as religiously as possible--except when we go off the deep end and break it on occasion.
In re to #2--that's a gross simplification of what he said but it's pretty funny and very elitist and thus completely appropriate on this great, elitist food blog.
Unbeknownst to the neighboring suburbanites dwelling in their peaceful monochromatic houses a revolution had been unleashed! Not a political one, not an economic one, not quite a cultural one but one rather of good taste--fine food, drink and camaraderie.
Plunket and Bella Cucina wanted to enjoy food based on their respective European travels, their roots and really anything in between that had any merit whatsoever. So they started the Cuisine Regime. (It was also a good distraction while BC waited for her fiancee to return from a hush-hush operation abroad. And while Plunket got all the gum unstuck from her hair using JIF peanut butter, crunchy not smooth.)
The CR, as you know, has 7 Cornerstones. But, more than that, it is a way of life based on the 5 senses. Aristotle once said 2 things (well, he actually said a lot of things but we don't really need to go into that here, it could take forever):
1) Virtue is found in the mean between two extremes.
2) Ugly people cannot be happy.
In re to #1, what old Aristotle meant was too much of anything isn't any good and we must have balance. The CR heartily embraces this. Too much salt can make a dish unpalatable, too little--dull as dishwater (never used that phrase before but never really had to either.) Too much wine, you say stupid things, too little--you say nothing. Too much hairspray, you look like you got your finger stuck in an outlet during the 80's, too little--you don't look like you got your finger stuck in an outlet during the 80's. You get the point. And we will try and follow this rule of virtue-as-a-mean as religiously as possible--except when we go off the deep end and break it on occasion.
In re to #2--that's a gross simplification of what he said but it's pretty funny and very elitist and thus completely appropriate on this great, elitist food blog.
The 7 Cornerstones of Eating Well
The Cuisine Regime Rules And Cornerstones
1. Enjoy your food--always possible if it's good.2. Know your food--you don't have to be all formal and Emily Postish, but a decent knowledge is advisable.
3. Eat slowly--pretend you are molasses, the month is January and you're in the Arctic.
4. Eat with others--friends, family, the stray alley cat.
5. Eat without gadgets--no TV, texting, or emailing, or gnu hunting.
6. Have a glass of wine with dinner--never more than two or your taste buds will get drowned out and you won't even remember how good the meal was anyways.
7. Enjoy your food--using the 5 senses. A sign of enjoyment in Myanmar is throwing food across the table at your host's forehead. If you are at a restaurant a waiter will do.
Do you know what Quinoa is?
Cities and Restaurants Recommended by the CR
- Walnut Hill, New Hope, KY
- The Swallow at the Hollow, Roswell, GA
- The Bristol, Alpharetta, GA
- Strasbourg, France
- Ed's BBQ, Russelville, KY
- Cafe Intermezzo, Atlanta, GA
- 3rd Street Diner, Neenah, WI
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