pssst - hey astro? I think you pissed 'em off. Gotta watch that.
As for me, I am clearly noting in my Dating Do’s and Don’t’s (should I need it - I am married) - “Offer them Roast Beef, horseradish optional”
I’m married, too, but I love roast beef sandwiches. And now, at 10:15, I’m starving for one.
Maybe I’ll go get a roast for the slow cooker this weekend since Mom and Dad will be in town. I’ll impress them with my newfound wifely cooking skills!
So…um, how do you cook a roast in the slow cooker?
Ava
Here’s what I do:
Put about a half cup of liquid (water, red wine, stout, broth) in Crockpot. Rinse the meat & season with S & P. Throw into afforementioned pot. Douse with worcestershire, add whatever else strikes your fancy (fresh garlic, onions, etc). Put the lid on, turn to low & forget about it for a long time*. Please note that this does not produce a rare roast. I couldn’t get away with rare with my queasy husband.
*I don’t really pay attention to the time. I usually start the roast around noon & dinnertime is normally 6-7.
Yup. I’ll buy sliced meat from the deli and kaiser rolls – I already have both real horseradish and the “creamy horseradish spread” (whatever it’s called) in the fridge, depending on my mood.
And if you’d been paying attention while we were married, you’d know the answer to that already. 
How long would I cook it to get it rare? He and I both love rare meat - if the cow is still screaming, I’ll eat it. (And yes, I am a former vegan - go figure).
Thanks! This is great. Can I stick veggies in there at the same time or throw those in later?
Ava
I’m not sure how to accomplish this in the crockpot. I think I would stick to oven roasting for that just because I don’t know about the consistency of the temp.
Veggies in the in the crock take a couple hours on low, depending on how done you like them. While I’ll put in some onions, celery and carrots in the pot to flavor the meat as it cooks, I’ll often wait a few hours before dumping in the veggies to be served with the meat. Mushy carrots and desintegrating onions aren’t nice to present.
There are a ton of crockpot recipes out there. Check out recipesource.com for good ideas. Have fun!
Why just the other day I made some London Broil for dinner. Being a single gal, there were lots of leftovers. So I made some bread (yes, by hand) shaped it into hoagie rolls (that was an experiment), then I sliced the LB really thin, stirred up some lettuce & caesar dressing, and had a steak-caesar sandwich on homemade bread. It was the bomb, yo.
Weird, you hit my secret weakness… :dubious:
I’m nominally a vegetarian but my one secret craving is Arby’s Beef n’Cheddars. Mmmmm, fake cheeze. So I never make roast beef sandwiches but I sneak by Arby’s every couple o’months and buy one.
Nah, we’re not pissed. Just amused, bemused, and confused. Like betenoir, I’m wondering if he’s buying into a stereotype of single women’s eating habits. Not that there isn’t a nugget of truth there. There is. But I’d think that he’d broken bread with enough real-life women to know that the stereotype is just that, and doesn’t apply to most women’s eating habits.
Aw, cry me a river. At least you have November 21 to hold on to. I just had a major food-sensitivity assay done and apparently I’m sensitive to beef! So I’m off of the cow indefinitely. It’s possible that I may be able to eat beef at some point in the future, but for now, and maybe forever, it’s zero beef for the Bean.
But I’ll share my favorite roast beast sandwich with you all anyway. It sounds like an odd combo, but it is soooo good: Rare deli roast beef and mozzarella, on sliced whole wheat bread, with some thin sliced tomato and mayo, heated so the cheese is a little melty. For best results, this sandwich should be prepared by a cute deli guy and then wrapped in that white paper while you take it outside and eat it on a bench while watching the world go by.
Dude here.
I regularly buy a full roast just so I’ll have a week’s worth of sandwiches.
Sandwich at home: toasted baker’s bun, 1/4 lb. of thinly sliced beef, pop it in the toaster oven to heat the meat, top it with some Arthur Bryant’s BBQ sauce, and a nice slice of provolone.
Sandwich on the go: baker’s bun, beef, tobasco, provolone, sprouts/crisp lettuce
As a single gal I loved roast beef with cole slaw on a pumpernickel bagel. That’s a little too strange for hubby.
I’m married, but even if I were single, sure - I’d buy roast beef and make myself sandwiches. Very rare, please.
Horseradish, and a touch of mayo. With lettuce and tomato.
And maybe some horseradish cheddar cheese. Safeway carries it. Yummy.
To a certain extent it is stereotyping. I should have been more expansive and clear in the OP, but I was tired, and being a single man, and lacking a soft womanly bosom to rest my head upon until more lucid, simply plowed ahead with my inquiry.
I rarely, if ever, see women order roast beef subs or sandwiches when standing in lunch counter and deli lines, and in dining out I rarely see women order a straight red meat item like steak for dinner. It’s always some chicken or fish or non-red meat dish. I just wondered what happened to women and red meat. I know it’s somewhat unfashionable, but I can’t imagine going without roast beef. I wondered if women getting their beef secretly, or was it off the menu for them these days?
The responses are encouraging. Sturdy, red blooded women eating red meat means there is hope for mankind.
Psssssssst…astro! They’re all lying!
Everybody KNOWS that when chicks are all alone, they cut the crusts off of thin pieces of white bread and make sandwiches out of sliced cucumbers (seeded) and lots of mayonnaise. Cut into quarters.
I’ve never been a fan of big ol’ roast beef sanwiches, single or not. I prefer turkey on baguette with havarti or brie and lettuce. Yummy.
Well I’m married and male, but I’ll give you my opinion anyway.
A roast beef sandwhich should be piled high with beef, annointed with mustard (plain yellow) red onions and Vlassic Zesty Dill Pickles (the only true pickles).
In a pinch, Arby’s Super Roast Beef will work (I never would have thought to put catalina dressing on roast beef, but it works)
As for an actual roast, I bake it in the over, nice and rare, rubbed with garlic and oregano.
Mmmm corned beef. I was just yelled at by my nurse for eating that. (I’m on dialysis and salty foods make me retain water)
Astro, you have obviously never eaten with my family. My father wants chicken or salmon or tofu, served with rice in a sauce spiced with the finest outputs from all the world. My mother wants steak, potatos and peas, please, and not adulterated with any complex seasoning like pepper. Nope, can’t tell at all that she’s Irish, not one little bit.
When I lived alone during the summer, I was too cheap to by roast beef, but would have if I found any in the meat ends. Mmm, homemade steak and cheese sandwichs … mmm.
Oh, there’s a joke in there somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I can figure it out.
I think astro is like a puppetmaster who sits there eating sandwiches and saying “hmm I wonder if I could have a 3 page thread about this! ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!”
Then when the thread reaches page three and people are arguing about whether honey mustard gives you chick farts he sits back and says “HA HA I AM THE PUPPETMASTER.”
Astro, that is one bizarre fetish you’ve got going there…
congratulations!