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Honestly, make it yourself and save $$$! You can get a 3 or 4 rib standing rib roast at Costco for about $35. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees, coat the roast with olive oil, salt and pepper and roast it for 15-20 minutes. Turn down the oven to 325 degrees and finish cooking for 1 1/2-2 hours, checking every 30 minutes, until the internal temperature reaches 125 degrees. Remove from the oven and cover for 20 minutes before carving.
This may be one of the easiest "fancy" meals you can make at home and the quality will surpass just about anything that you can get a a restaurant. It is a perfect Sunday meal and it makes great leftovers.
JD Wrote:
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> Honestly, make it yourself and save $$$! You can
> get a 3 or 4 rib standing rib roast at Costco for
> about $35. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees, coat
> the roast with olive oil, salt and pepper and
> roast it for 15-20 minutes. Turn down the oven to
> 325 degrees and finish cooking for 1 1/2-2 hours,
> checking every 30 minutes, until the internal
> temperature reaches 125 degrees. Remove from the
> oven and cover for 20 minutes before carving.
>
> This may be one of the easiest "fancy" meals you
> can make at home and the quality will surpass just
> about anything that you can get a a restaurant.
> It is a perfect Sunday meal and it makes great
> leftovers.
This is a great post and great advice. You're absolutely right. I'd add (though it probably goes without saying) that you'll want to use a proper roasting pan for best results.
CCR used to have an awesome prime rib special. It was either Thursday or Friday. Very reasonable too but the tips would break the bank. Do they still do that?
My wife and I have had prime rib at PJ Skiddos several times over the last year or so and I didn't think it was bad at all. Salad, potato, and nice piece of prime rib for just under $20.00. I mean, it's not an super-upscale $100/dinner downtown DC steakhouse, but how can you complain about that?
In my experience its not Kilroys even though they brag about their prime rib. Last time I ate there, and it will be the last, it was full of fat and cold. I asked for a baked potato and was told they ran out. Keep in mind there is a Safeway in the same shopping center they could have easily gotten some from when they realized they were out.
Time Machine Guy Wrote:
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> I highly recommend Tom Sarris' Restaurant in
> Rosslyn...
Hey Time Machine Guy,
Besides bringing back Tom Sarrris' Orleans House, could you please take this area back about twenty years. This place was a much better place back then before all the carpetbaggers started moving here.
I make my own. Preheat to 475. Salt & pepper outside of roast. Cook bone down for 20mins. Turn down oven to 350 for the rest of the time. Use meat thermometer. Pass the horseradish. ...now I'm hungry.
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Outback serves 2 prime ribs. One is traditional and the other is the pan-seared, Outback seasoned variety. Maybe I just don't aprreciate faux Australian cooking but...I prefer the traditional. The pan-seared one I tried tasted like shoe leather after being cooked like that.
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> > OUTBACK!!!!!
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> Outback serves 2 prime ribs. One is traditional
> and the other is the pan-seared, Outback seasoned
> variety. Maybe I just don't aprreciate faux
> Australian cooking but...I prefer the traditional.
> The pan-seared one I tried tasted like shoe
> leather after being cooked like that.
Prime Rib is cooked as a roast and then sliced off.
Pan searing prime rib is nothing more than cooking a ribeye
DH Wrote:
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> Oz Wrote:
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> > > OUTBACK!!!!!
> >
> > Outback serves 2 prime ribs. One is traditional
> > and the other is the pan-seared, Outback
> seasoned
> > variety. Maybe I just don't aprreciate faux
> > Australian cooking but...I prefer the
> traditional.
> > The pan-seared one I tried tasted like shoe
> > leather after being cooked like that.
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> Prime Rib is cooked as a roast and then sliced
> off.
> Pan searing prime rib is nothing more than cooking
> a ribeye
I have worked with a number of Australians, and "OutbacK" overall is a foreign concept to them. They marvel/chuckle at the fact that one of the most successful/highest grossing steak chains in the US borrows a term (and it is simply that, as executed by the restaurant) from their heritage/geogrphic significance...
Australian cuisine, which is nothing to write home about, is nothing like what is served at Outback. Tangentially, you would be hard pressed to find a Foster's Lager anywhere in Australia. It is a figment of some marketer's (probably a very successful marketer's) imagination.
I've heard the same thing from a friend who now lives in Australia. No shrimp on the barbie or foster's. Rather, the go to beer is "VB", which is short for Victoria Bitter, but I could be wrong on this. Either way, just excited to have a friend who lives in Sydney that I can stay with! He loves it there.
Some have said that PJ Skiddos wasn't that good. We went Saturday night and my brother and I both had the large cut and it was pretty good. Was it the best I have ever had? No, but it wasn't the worse either. I'd go back.