Roast Beef with Debris Gravy and Roast Vegetables

The State Fair of Texas is cancelled for the year, and our family always has a great time there. There’s tons of fun food, but I always get a roast beef po’ boy with debris gravy. And weird beer. Texas and Louisiana are neighbors, so there’s a lot of sharing. Whenever I make po’ boys at home, I use this recipe. PARASOL’S STYLE ROAST BEEF PO BOY RECIPE from NolaCuisine.com. Great blog! You may look at it and your eyes may get huge in horror when you read about simmering the roast and using Kitchen Bouquet in the gravy, but you just have to trust her. It’s so flippin’ lickable!

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Okay, so hopefully I wont offend the author with my completely inauthentic use of her insanely delicious beef. But I’m a tinkerer. I’ve made her po’boys exactly as she commands in the recipe. So yummy! But, I’ve also turned it into a po’boy salad when I was in a more salad-y, less bread-y mood. It was awesome. Tonight, I’m using it in my 800 gram of produce challenge in my roast dinner. 345 grams per plate, which puts me at 1003 for the day. Woohoo!

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Make her beef exactly as written. (When she says slice it thin, you really want to. Mine wasn’t quite thin enough this time.) After you get the beef and gravy into the oven, let’s make some veggies to complement it.

1 pound little potatoes, quartered
8 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
1 red onion – roughly diced
8 cloves of garlic, peeled, but left whole

Toss in:
2 Tablespoons olive oil
Plenty of salt and pepper
1 teaspoon dried thyme

Pop into the oven for the last 40 minutes. When there’s only 10 minutes left, add 1 cup of peas (frozen’s fine).

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