Making roast beef on a Sunday makes me feel like I’m in a Village Green Preservation Society-era Kinks song. It’s like being nostalgic for a time and place I never lived in. All mugs of draft beer and darts tournaments, dropping by to say hello to the vicar, admiring the thatched roof of my house, or whatever people in rural England used to do.
People don’t really do Sunday roasts like they used to, but it’s really a pretty simple thing to do and it makes Sunday dinner feel like more of an event. This roast beef used a simple eye round roast I got from the farmer’s market. The sauce is a simple madeira reduction that had a sweetness, but wasn’t overpowering, and complemented the beef nicely. I thought about doing a real madeira sauce, but once you start dealing with demi-glace and such, you’re signing up for a lot of work. Better to keep it simple. [Read more…]