My first attempt at a roast beef with pics!

This was my first try at cooking a roast beef and I'm rather proud of myself!







This was after I took it out of the fridge this evening. I covered it with very coarsely ground peppercorns and set it on a little rack in the pyrex dish overnight last night.


From here it went into the oven.





After the first 15 min, then I turned it over, put it back in for another 15 min.




After the next 15 min, I checked it with a meat thermometer and it was right where I wanted it, so I moved it to a plate where I loosely tented it with some aluminum foil.


I took the drippings that were left in the glass pyrex and poured them into this pan, added 3 cups of beef broth and a little cayenne. I heated it on med-high (also tossed in about a T of AP flour) and rendered that down to make a little gravy. I'm out of rice to pour it over so I made some good noodles instead.






This is the money shot. The ends were well done but still had some pink to them. The middle is a perfect medium rare.

I couldn't get over it. I wanted to cook it just under where medium rare turns to medium, in case others wanted to nuke it when they ate some.


Total cook time: 30 min + a 15 min tented rest for it.