Bargain Beef

[woozer]

A new Sainsburys has just opened near me and is selling their roasting joints for half price - yippee ! huge piece of silverside is now in the slow cooker - roasties and Yorkshire pud planned - and I didnt break the bank.

[coccinelle]

And where is this new Sainsbury's?

[woozer]

Its in Worcester - in our family we used to call ourselves Tesco city because we have at least 6 Tesco stores - so, sad as I am I am really thrilled to have a bit more choice. I still use the local shops for most of my meat and veg - if I had been going to do a "proper" roast beef dinner it would have been rib or sirloin from the butcher - and a loan from the IMF :-)) I am pot roasting in the hope that it will be nice as I usually find supermarket beef rather a disappointment. Fingers crossed

[sara3]

I think Asda are doing all joints of meat half price at the moment..

[Postdog]

Well how do you cook a joint in a slow cooker then?

[woozer]

Brown the joint in a frying pan with a carrot and some onion pour in a bit of wine and/or stock- stick it in the slow cooker in the morning and go and enjoy yourself- after about 8 hours take the joint out and let it rest whilst you liquidise the cooking juices to make gravy . If you cant be bothered to brown it all first it will still work but browning just gives it a bit more flavour.

[pastafreak]

It is a bit like a pot roast then....my mum used to make them all the time when I was young. It was the only way I liked beef.

[redcrx]

sainsburys has legs of lamb at half price too!

[woozer]

Just for the record - it was gorgeous