Saint Ratprick's Day

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I hear ya Koz, I did something similar at xmas.
We had friends over for dinner and I made a rib roast - only because I had one on the freezer. It was "my share" of one of the beef cows my uncle is experimenting with at the farm. Organic, grass fed, yadda yadda (pictured here, one of the red guys). I'd never made one before but it came out great.

We went to LJ's mom's the next night for dinner and I told her how awsome the roast was and how it was so nice to have beef without being all freaked out about conventional beef related nasties (she has graciously put up with me not eating beef or most anything else she cooks for many years). And btw, what's for dinner? Oh, a rib roast...

I pulled out a rump roast and a giant sirloin from the second cow to give to my brother in law in exchange for his plumbing services yesterday, and he just laughed. "Oh, is this your fancy snob-cow-better-than-my-mothers beef?"
Gah....