Poppit – Last night, we had my family over for dinner and for something special, we thought we’d make the ultimate favourite family meal, a roast. We chose to make roast lamb and spent the afternoon preparing the vegetables and seasoning the lamb before putting everything into the Weber and BBQ to cook. Now, you’d think that something involving just roasting meat and veg would be a simple task… it probably should be! But as mentioned in our very first post, https://cookingwithapuppet.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/cooking-with-a-puppet-an-introduction/, we only have a Sunbeam Pizza “Oven” which doesn’t even fit a whole pizza let alone a roast and full trays of veggies!
We didn’t let this stop our feast preparations and we set up the BBQ with a boosted-up tray so that the veggies wouldn’t be touching the plate where they would risk being burnt. The two roast lambs went into the Weber and everything seemed to be going smoothly for the first hour after which time, the gas bottle for the BBQ ran out. We frantically decided that the lamb would probably keep cooking as the weber was still hot and changed the bottles over… but it seemed that the BBQ had just decided to stop working all together and would only produce a tiny flame (definitely not worthy of heating up an entire BBQ).
I quickly ran inside, switched on the pizza oven and as the lamb was already on its way to being done and had shrunk in size, we squeezed them into the little oven and switched the veggies over to the Weber. Once again, everything seemed to be going well until a burning smell wafted in from outside where the veggies had begun to burn as they were now sitting directly over the flame.
Although there was quite a bit of drama involved in the cooking, everything turned out pretty well (minus a few burnt pieces of sweet potato). The meat was very tender and the rosemary, garlic and sea salt seasoning really gave it a nice flavour. The family all agreed that it was delicious – but don’t families always say that?
The veggies prepared and waiting to be cooked
Almost forgot to take a photo of the meal! Excuse the poor presentation and nibble from the side – by this stage, we just wanted to eat!
Cooking with a Puppet 