We had a reasonably restful day Sunday, chill’n watching television and the like. The day before while rummaging in the freezer I came across several small cuts of prime rib roasts, seems I had forgotten they were there.
Thought this would make a nice change for Sunday dinner as I have not cooked many prime ribs over the years.
I made up a rub of mustard, salt, pepper and garlic and smothered the roast with it and placed it in refrigerator for couple hours.
Pre heated oven to 450, cooked roast for ½ hour, lowered heat to 325 and cooked for another ½ hour [roast was only 1 ½ pound].
Rested meat covered while finished off the vegetables, made the Yorkshire pudding and gravy.
I had enough left overs so that we had same meal re heated yesterday [this time with cabbage instead of peas n beans], tasted just as good if not better than Sundays meal.
The tranquility of the day was some what marred by a phone call and an e mail in the morning.
Contractors doing work for Aliant have been “increasing the capacity” of the telephone service in one part of town. Seems when time came to ‘cut into’ the old lines and transfer to the new lines chaos reigned.
The guys on the ground did not have complete and up to date information from Aliant as to the existing phone and data lines in the effected area, so trial and error came into play.
The phone call was for help locating the line that carries the church services up to the radio station and the e mail was the loss of data flow from the neutron monitor to Delaware.
Subsequently I discovered the line carrying the radio broadcast to Goose Bay was also down.
So some phone calls and an amicable contact with the guys on the ground sorted out the data flow situation by Monday morning.
The radio feed for the church line was located. As of yesterday afternoon the line to Goose Bay was up but of really bad quality so will have to check on that again. I understand other customers in the area have been affected negatively with this work. Makes one wonder if dealing with Aliant management will get worse than they are now with this news.
Thought this would make a nice change for Sunday dinner as I have not cooked many prime ribs over the years.
I made up a rub of mustard, salt, pepper and garlic and smothered the roast with it and placed it in refrigerator for couple hours.
Pre heated oven to 450, cooked roast for ½ hour, lowered heat to 325 and cooked for another ½ hour [roast was only 1 ½ pound].
Rested meat covered while finished off the vegetables, made the Yorkshire pudding and gravy.
I had enough left overs so that we had same meal re heated yesterday [this time with cabbage instead of peas n beans], tasted just as good if not better than Sundays meal.
The tranquility of the day was some what marred by a phone call and an e mail in the morning.
Contractors doing work for Aliant have been “increasing the capacity” of the telephone service in one part of town. Seems when time came to ‘cut into’ the old lines and transfer to the new lines chaos reigned.
The guys on the ground did not have complete and up to date information from Aliant as to the existing phone and data lines in the effected area, so trial and error came into play.
The phone call was for help locating the line that carries the church services up to the radio station and the e mail was the loss of data flow from the neutron monitor to Delaware.
Subsequently I discovered the line carrying the radio broadcast to Goose Bay was also down.
So some phone calls and an amicable contact with the guys on the ground sorted out the data flow situation by Monday morning.
The radio feed for the church line was located. As of yesterday afternoon the line to Goose Bay was up but of really bad quality so will have to check on that again. I understand other customers in the area have been affected negatively with this work. Makes one wonder if dealing with Aliant management will get worse than they are now with this news.
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