I cannot recall having ever cooked a big piece of red meat. I’ve made burgers (from ground beef) and chicken (breasts only), but not a roast or other thick steak. Since I may have possibly set myself up to invite people over for dinner, I thought I should probably find something to cook. I found a recipe for Pot Roast for Two and figured I’d give that a try. It’s currently in the oven and has about 3 more hours to go, so we’ll see how it turns out. I can say that it smells good so far.

In making this roast, I needed “dry red wine”. I googled what type of wine to get and found that a pinot noir would be suitable. I bought a bottle of 2010 Castle Rock Pinot Noir Sonoma County. I needed like 1/2 a cup of it. So what should I do with the rest? I’m not much of a wine drinker, so I did get the cork out…though I destroyed it in the process. I guess all I could do was drink it. I poured myself a glass and decided I don’t care for pinot noir. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say I don’t like an entire type of wine based on one glass from one bottle. But that’s what I’m doing. Though I’ll have another glass once the roast comes out. Perhaps it’s something that you have to have food with to make it palatable.

Update
The roast was done an hour earlier than the instructions said. So I think I may have bought the wrong cut of meat, but I also don’t think it mattered much. The meat was good. (Though since I always cut into it too soon after taking it out of the oven, I may have over-waited. The meat wasn’t that hot.) The sauce wasn’t as good as I thought it should have been. I did miss two ingredients that I thought I had, but then didn’t, a bay leaf and garlic. I also don’t have a blender, so I mixed everything in my food processor. I’m guessing the sauce wasn’t as smooth as it should have been. Would I make this for guests? Probably not. But I do think that cooking the meat on a low temperature for a long time is a good move. I just need to find a better sauce for it.

Other good news is that John and Ted stopped by. The thought the pinot noir was good and drank most of it. Yay!